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The Student t Distribution

Syntax

dt(x, df)
pt(x, df)
qt(x, df)
rt(x, df)

Description

These functions provide information about the t distribution with df degrees of freedom. dt gives the density, pt gives the distribution function qt gives the quantile function and rt generates random deviates.

The t distribution with n degrees of freedom has density

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for all real x.