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[mzakariaCERN]

however, it does not make the original data set normally distributed

standardization does make the data set normally distributed.

[rasbt]

no that's not true. The dataset will have the parameters of a standard normal distribution after standardization, i.e., zero mean and unit variance. But standardization cannot transform the data into a normal distribution. For that you'd need some power transformation like box-cox transformation.