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Topic 2. Distributions, hypothesis testing, and sample size determination The Student - t distribution (STD pg 56 and 77) Consider a repeated drawing of samples of size n = 5 from a normal distribution. For each sample compute , s, , and another statistic, t: t (n-1)= ( - ()/ (Remember Z = ( - ()/) The t statistics is the number of standard error that separate and its hypothesized mean μ. Fig. 1. Distribution of t (df=4) compared to Z. The t distribution is symmetric, but wider and flatter than the Z distribution, lying under it at the center and above it in the tails.  When N