Z Value T Value. In statistics the t statistic is the ratio of the departure of the estimated value of a parameter from its hypothesized value to its standard error. The critical value is z 1 α 2 for a two sided test and z 1 α for a one sided test.
9 votes see 3 more replies. T scores are used when the conversion is made without knowledge of the population standard deviation and mean. Z scores are based on your knowledge about the population s standard deviation and mean.
T scores are used when the conversion is made without knowledge of the population standard deviation and mean.
The critical value is z 1 α 2 for a two sided test and z 1 α for a one sided test. It is used in hypothesis testing via student s t test. In this post i show you how t tests use t values and t distributions to calculate probabilities and test hypotheses. Depending on the t test that you use you can compare a sample mean to a hypothesized value the means of two independent samples or the difference between paired samples.