Feature Scaling — Glossary

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Definition

Transforming numeric features to comparable magnitudes — z-score standardisation, min-max, or robust scaling. Required by distance- and gradient-based methods (k-NN, SVM, neural nets, ordination).

Examples

Z-scoring soil metrics before k-NN.

Related terms

Normalisation Normalization K-Nearest Neighbours Principal Component Analysis (PCA)