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Attempts: Keep the Highest: 14 1. The purpose of z-scores Aa Aa Why would you wa

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Attempts: Keep the Highest: 14 1. The purpose of z-scores Aa Aa Why would you want to transform a set of raw scores into a set of z-scores? Check all that apply. To be able to describe the location of a raw score in the distribution of raw scores To make all the transformed scores greater than 0 To make a distribution with a mean of 0 and a standard deviation of 1 To make it possible to compare scores from two different distributions Flash eyer MAC 28,0,16 33341 6 2004-2010 Apia All rights reserved Continue without saving

Explanation / Answer

We convert standard scores into z scores for the following reasons:

To be able to describe the location of a raw score in the distribution of raw scores

To make a distribution with mean of 0 and standard deviation of 1

To make it possible to compare scores from two different distributions

Hence,

Option A, Option C and Option D are correct.