Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (PANYNJ) is a joint venture between the U.S. states of New York and New Jersey, established in 1921 through an interstate compact authorized by the United States Congress.
Similarity score. In Sabermetrics and APBRmetrics, similarity scores are a method of comparing baseball and basketball players (usually in MLB or the NBA) to other players, with the intent of discovering who the most similar historical players are to a certain player. Similarity scores are among the many original sabermetric concepts first introduced by Bill James.
Norms allow you to compare your test scores with others. So, instead of just knowing that you got a 100 on the test, you could also be told that a score of 100 is at the 50th percentile. That tells you that roughly half of the people who are in the same group as you scored higher and lower than you did.any psychological tests, including intelligence tests, are about comparing your score to others' scores to see how you did. Watch this lesson to find out about two important concepts in psychology: standardization and norms.