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Student's t

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noun

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

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Student's t

This relationship between the Student's t distribution and the normal distribution is shown in Figure 8.8.

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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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To determine the critical value of the Student's t we need the degrees of freedom.

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And as we did before, we used a Student's t to compensate for this lack of information on the population variance.

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To look up a probability in the Student's t table we have to know the degrees of freedom in the problem.

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