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Student's t-test

American

[stood-nts tee-test, styood-nts] / ˈstud nts ˈtiˌtɛst, ˈstyud nts /

noun

Statistics.

another term for t-test.

Etymology

Origin of Student's t-test

First recorded in 1945–50; Student's t distribution

Example Sentences

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Student’s t-test was used for the comparisons in Fig. 4a.

From Nature • Aug. 1, 2017

An unpaired two-tailed Student’s t-test was used to calculate the P values, except where specified otherwise.

From Nature • Mar. 21, 2017

Student’s t-test was performed on homoscedastic populations and Student’s -test with Welch correction was applied on samples with different variances.

From Nature • Apr. 4, 2014

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