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- The probability distribution is
- f=1 is Cauchy distribution.
- As
, the t distribution becomes Gaussian
with mean 0 and Standard Deviation 1.
- This can be expected for as
, using data to
find 
, should be accurate.
- If
, choose 
, and
- one could say that 0 is true if
and 1 is true if 
.
Geoffrey Fox, Northeast Parallel Architectures Center at Syracuse University, gcf@npac.syr.edu