Hypothesis tests on one mean:  t test or z test? @jbstatistics
Hypothesis tests on one mean:  t test or z test?  @jbstatistics
Uploaded February 2013 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago
A look at at what influences the choice of the t test or z test in one-sample hypothesis tests on the population mean mu. I work through an example of a t test, and compare the p-value of the t test to would have been found had we (incorrectly) used a z test.
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Hypothesis tests on one mean: t test or z test?

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