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Appendix A JSL Syntax Reference 681<br />

Statistical Functions<br />

Col Rank(column)<br />

Description<br />

Ranks each row’s value, from 1 for the lowest value to the number of columns for the highest value. Ties<br />

are broken arbitrarily.<br />

Argument<br />

column The column to be ranked.<br />

Col Standardize(name)<br />

Description<br />

Calculates the column mean divided by the standard deviation across all rows of the specified column.<br />

Returns<br />

The standardized mean.<br />

Argument<br />

name a column name.<br />

Notes<br />

Standardizing centers the variable by its sample standard deviation. Thus, the following commands are<br />

equivalent:<br />

dt

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