Student's T-Distribution Is a Sampling Distribution for a Random Variable

question 54

True/False

Student's t-distribution is a sampling distribution for a random variable, t, derived from a normally distributed population, that is (1) single-peaked above the random variable's mean, median, and mode of zero, (2) perfectly symmetrical about this central value, and (3) characterized by tails extending indefinitely in both directions from the center, approaching, but never touching, the horizontal axis.

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