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student's t-distribution



In statistics, a way of testing how closely a model of population corresponds to the results of sampling. t is given by
Student's t-distribution
where n is the number of items in the sample, s the sample standard deviation, x-bar the sample mean, and μ the mean of the normal distribution, which is one's model.


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