Re: t-value

[Jonathan Stickel]

Doug Stewart wrote:
> Jonathan Stickel wrote:
> > Is there a function that can return the t-value, like what can be 
> > found in the back of most any statistics book?  I can't seem to find 
> > the appropriate function.  I want to calculate the "uncertainty" for a 
> > set of data, which is essentially the t-value for a given confidence 
> > interval (say 95%) and degrees of freedom times the standard deviation.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Jonathan
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> Did you look at t_cdf ???

After some statistics review and trial and error, I see that "tinv" is 
the function I want.  These functions (tpdf, tcdf, tinv) could use a few 
more details in their help text...

Jonathan