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The Effect on the T Distribution of Non‐Normality in the Sampled Population
Author(s) -
Ratcliffe J. F.
Publication year - 1968
Publication title -
journal of the royal statistical society: series c (applied statistics)
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.205
H-Index - 72
eISSN - 1467-9876
pISSN - 0035-9254
DOI - 10.2307/2985264
Subject(s) - normality , statistics , mathematics , population , distribution (mathematics) , econometrics , demography , sociology , mathematical analysis
Summary Student's t assumes that the parent population is normal. This paper describes a practical investigation to determine how large the sample size must be for various kinds of non‐normality to cease to have an appreciable effect on the distribution of t .