• TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
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    Z value (also known as z-score) is the distance (signed) between your model and a prediction.

    If your model is a mean (the average), the z-scores are the set of differences between the mean and the values used to compose the mean.

    If your model is a regression (relating, say, two variables relating x and y), then the z-score is the difference between the regression line and the values used to fit the regression.