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t distribution

t distribution is the ellipsis of Student's t distribution.

Meaning of Student's t distribution

Noun

Student's t distribution (plural Student's t distributions)

  1. A distribution that arises when the population standard deviation is unknown and has to be estimated from the data.
    • A complete description of the Student's t distribution is beyond the aims of this book.2009, Francesco Sardanelli, Giovanni Di Leo, “Biostatistics for Radiologists: Planning, Performing, and Writing a Radiologic Study”, in [2008, Biostatistica in Radiologia], Springer, page 59

Forms of t distribution

pluralt distributions
alternative formt-distribution

Questions about t distribution

What is t distribution the ellipsis of?
T distribution is the ellipsis of Student's t distribution.

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