Re: st: what's the big T in the t-test results

[Antoine Terracol <terracol@univ-paris1.fr>]

I think it has more to do with the convention that capitalized letters 
refer to the random variable, and lower case letters to realisations of 
the r.v.
Antoine

On 15/06/2010 22:34, Airey, David C wrote:
> .
>
> Ah, like N is used for the normal, and so T for the t-distribution. That makes sense.
>
> So "Pr(T>  t)" is shorthand for "the area of T to the right of t". That will work, thanks much.
>
> -Dave
>
> > Nick: T is the random variable of which t is the sample realisation.
> >
> > Antoine: I'd say T is the random variable with a Student distribution under the null, and t is the observed value of the test statistic.
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