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The Effect of Non-Normality on the t Distribution

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

M. S. Bartlett
M. S. Bartlett*
Affiliation:
Queens' College
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Some theoretical results on the effect of non-normality on the t test of significance, though it is stressed that they are incomplete and not perhaps of much quantitative value, nevertheless tend to agree with the result of sampling investigations in showing that for moderate departures from normality this test may still be used with confidence, particularly for testing differences in means of equal numbers of observations.

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Research Article
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Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 31 , Issue 2 , April 1935 , pp. 223 - 231
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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1935

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