The solution is obviously wrong because the check at the end fails (there should be no variability in this ratio).
The reason is that "scale" in R standardizes columns, not rows (which is counter-intuitive, but they do tell us to make sure that the sd of each observation, not variable is 1).
This can be solved by running dsc = t(scale(t(USArrests))) instead of dsc = scale(USArrests)
leowang396
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3 years ago
The solution is obviously wrong because the check at the end fails (there should be no variability in this ratio). The reason is that "scale" in R standardizes columns, not rows (which is counter-intuitive, but they do tell us to make sure that the sd of each observation, not variable is 1). This can be solved by running
dsc = t(scale(t(USArrests)))instead ofdsc = scale(USArrests)