Student's t distribution
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of Student's t distribution
First recorded in 1925–30; after Student, pseudonym of English statistician William Sealy Gosset (1876–1937); t represents a random variable in the equation describing this type of distribution
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Distribution: Student’s t distribution with n – 1 degrees of freedom.
From Textbooks • Mar. 27, 2020
As the degrees of freedom decrease, the graph of the Student’s t distribution looks more like the graph of the standard normal distribution.
From Textbooks • Mar. 27, 2020
He therefore created the Student's t distribution as a ratio of the normal distribution and Chi squared distribution.
From Textbooks • Nov. 29, 2017
The Student's t distribution has one of the most desirable properties of the normal: it is symmetrical.
From Textbooks • Nov. 29, 2017
As the sample size increases, the Student's t distribution become more and more like the normal distribution.
From Textbooks • Nov. 29, 2017
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