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Don't laugh too hard but..."t" in t-test?
Message posted by Joe (via 12.78.130.80) on December 15, 2001 at 9:42 PM (ET)
If you will indulge a question from someone who knows nothing about statistics, what, if anything, does the "t" in t-test stand for?
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Re: Don't laugh too hard but...
Message posted by Dee (via 24.18.245.122) on December 15, 2001 at 11:39 PM (ET)
That is a very good question! I'm not laughing because I was just asked that in a statistics class and am trying to find the answer too.
Re: Don't laugh too hard but...
Message posted by JG (via 128.8.23.42) on December 16, 2001 at 1:04 AM (ET)
The t-test is a statistical test that assumes that you have a normally distributed random variable and a small sample. Small usually means less than 30. A test as to whether men a taller than women based or a random sample of 10, would probably be done using a t-test.
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