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rpicard on Oct 17, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Do the police give more tickets at the end of the ...

Great point! Dividing by expected would have been a much nicer solution. I think the method I used still works though, just not as nicely. Am I wrong?

Kaizyn on Oct 18, 2012 [–]

Z-Score is your friend for this kind of data normalization.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_score

rpicard on Oct 18, 2012 | [–]

Thanks. It looks like I need to do a little self-study in statistics.

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