Surprise or critical values for the Normal (red) and Student's t (blue) distributions

critical values for Student's t distribution

Note that as the degrees of freedom (use the df scrollbar) increase, the two curves increasingly overlap until it is almost impossible to distinguish one from the other.

Technical note: The approximation algorithm used for Student's t-distribution is not accurate for df = 1 or df = 2.

 


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