Student's t

British  

noun

1. a statistic often used to test the hypothesis that a random sample of normally distributed observations has a given mean, μ; given by t = ( ̄x– μ) √n/s where ̄x is the mean of the sample, s is its standard deviation, and n is the size of the sample

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Etymology

Origin of Student's t

after Student, the pen name of W. S. Gosset (1876–1937), English statistician and research scientist

Example Sentences

From the Student’s t table, at the row marked 9 and column marked .005, is the number of standard deviations to capture 99% of the probability, 3.2498.

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The Student's t distribution has one of the most desirable properties of the normal: it is symmetrical.

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He therefore created the Student's t distribution as a ratio of the normal distribution and Chi squared distribution.

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What the Student's t distribution does is spread out the horizontal axis so it takes a larger number of standard deviations to capture the same amount of probability.

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For example, the probability is .10 that a Student’s t random variable with 10 degrees of freedom exceeds 1.372.

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