t-distribution

The t-distribution also assumes that the underlying distribution being sampled is normal, which is rarely a good assumption at the levels of reliability that are being demanded, so the assumption train has run off the rails pretty early on.

Significant James Killus 2007

The t-distribution also assumes that the underlying distribution being sampled is normal, which is rarely a good assumption at the levels of reliability that are being demanded, so the assumption train has run off the rails pretty early on.

Archive 2007-10-01 James Killus 2007

I'll note here that in statistical sampling, one usually uses something like the t-distribution, which only turns into the normal distribution when the number of samples is infinite, so it adds additional uncertainty for the size of the sample.

Archive 2007-10-01 James Killus 2007

I'll note here that in statistical sampling, one usually uses something like the t-distribution, which only turns into the normal distribution when the number of samples is infinite, so it adds additional uncertainty for the size of the sample.

Significant James Killus 2007

But that is no guarantee the number therein came from a data generating process that follows a t-distribution.

Spurious Significance #2 : Granger and Newbold 1974 « Climate Audit 2005

The cross-validation R2 is virtually 0, the sign is correct only 54% of the time just better than random, the product mean test has a t-distribution and is insignificant, the CE statistic is negative.

Wahl and Ammann: Some Verification Statistics « Climate Audit 2005

The results of this test should be evaluated against the standard t-distribution with degrees of freedom equal to n-2.

Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] Ed Poor 2010

E.g., t = βK/SEβK ˆ ˆ (22) has Student's t-distribution with n − p degrees of freedom, which converges to the standard normal distribution as n gets large.

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What is the function in Excel to obtain a confidence interval using the t-distribution?

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The results of this test should be evaluated against the standard t-distribution with degrees of freedom equal to n-2.

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