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Is anyone familiar with quantile normalization? As I understand it's a way to "polish" a set of datasets so that they have the same "statistical properties" (according to Wikipedia)? I wonder if anyone knows what are the statistical properties that they refer to when they say

quantile normalization is a technique for making two distributions identical in statistical properties.

Are those statistical properties the mean, median, or standard deviation?

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Of possible interest (although it focus on genetics): How does quantile normalization work? – chl♦ Jan 24 '12 at 20:54
The Wikipedia description sounds an awful lot like a sample-based version of the Probability integral transform between two continuous distributions. – whuber♦ Jan 24 '12 at 21:31

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