The student's T distribution.

Abstract

The purpose of this thesis is to enlighten a person with a calculus background to the composition and use of the Student's T Distribution. The thesis is divided into basically two parts. The first part shows the composition of the Student's T Distribution and how the distribution was formulated from two other distributions. The second part demonstrates how one tests hypothesis from the various tests using the T distribution. There are six different tests which are presented in this thesis.