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I'm trying to calculate z scores for a given column. I am working with a shapefile, that contains fields like percent poverty, percent tree canopy and temperature. My ultimate goal is to add new columns and then calculate z scores for each these fields.

I can calculate a single z score using the procedure described in Deriving Z-score values for given field using ArcGIS for Desktop?

However, this is something that I'll be doing a lot of times for different geographies and fields. I'd like to be able to run the process in ModelBuilder. I'm not sure if I should create a new tool, or if I can write a script within the "Calculate Field" tool. My Python is not so great, so I'm struggling to make either approach work.

I recognize that this question is similar to Calculating Z-scores using ModelBuilder in ArcGIS Desktop?, but I'm not sure how to convert the responses in that post, which are for a raster dataset, to what I'm working on.

So, does anyone know of a pre-existing tool to do this, or is someone willing to offer up some code to make this work?

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  • Possible duplicate of Calculating Z-scores in Arc – MaryBeth Jan 5 '16 at 19:52
  • You can use Summary Statistics with vector data to get your Mean and SD for your three fields. Then you can add other fields and calculate z scores on the statistics results. All of that can be incorporated in Modelbuilder or Python. – Baltok Jan 5 '16 at 21:26
  • Summary statistics is definitely helpful, but how can I link the results from that table into the calculate fields function? Again, I am a wee babe in the ways of Python. – ledarling Jan 5 '16 at 21:48