How to Code the Student’s t-Test from Scratch in Python

Last Updated on August 8, 2019

Perhaps one of the most widely used statistical hypothesis tests is the Student’s t test.

Because you may use this test yourself someday, it is important to have a deep understanding of how the test works. As a developer, this understanding is best achieved by implementing the hypothesis test yourself from scratch.

In this tutorial, you will discover how to implement the Student’s t-test statistical hypothesis test from scratch in Python.

After completing this tutorial, you will know:

• The Student’s t-test will comment on whether it is likely to observe two samples given that the samples were drawn from the same population.
• How to implement the Student’s t-test from scratch for two independent samples.
• How to implement the paired Student’s t-test from scratch for two dependent samples.

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