November 09, 2004

Student's t Distribution

Student's t distribution accounts for the fact that the sample variance of X is only an estimate of the true variance of X.

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The critical t value is a bit larger than the z critical value, but the algebra is identical.

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The t table is organized as follows:

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Posted by bparke at November 9, 2004 09:38 PM