From the Central Limit Theorem to the Z- and t-distributions

Javier Fernandez
Towards Data Science
5 min readNov 21, 2020

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After running several statistical tests to assess my models, I decided to dig deeper into the theory and ask myself questions such as why the number of samples is relevant for the statistical test, why the standard deviation has a square root in the denominator, or why statisticians differentiate between Z- and t-distribution.

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