t-student

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• Like a normal distribution but with thicker tails.

• Used to describe the distribution of sample means, differences between two samples means…

• Requires that the distribution of the statistic is normally distributed (most sample statistics are): in essence, is a “degenerated” normal distribution when you don’t have enough samples.

• Refs:

  • Practical Statistics for Data Scientists t-student.