numpy.random.standard_t — NumPy v1.16 Manual (original) (raw)
numpy.random. standard_t(df, size=None)¶
Draw samples from a standard Student’s t distribution with df degrees of freedom.
A special case of the hyperbolic distribution. As df gets large, the result resembles that of the standard normal distribution (standard_normal).
| Parameters: | df : float or array_like of floats Degrees of freedom, should be > 0. size : int or tuple of ints, optional Output shape. If the given shape is, e.g., (m, n, k), thenm * n * k samples are drawn. If size is None (default), a single value is returned if df is a scalar. Otherwise,np.array(df).size samples are drawn. |
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| Returns: | out : ndarray or scalar Drawn samples from the parameterized standard Student’s t distribution. |
Notes
The probability density function for the t distribution is
The t test is based on an assumption that the data come from a Normal distribution. The t test provides a way to test whether the sample mean (that is the mean calculated from the data) is a good estimate of the true mean.
The derivation of the t-distribution was first published in 1908 by William Gosset while working for the Guinness Brewery in Dublin. Due to proprietary issues, he had to publish under a pseudonym, and so he used the name Student.
References
| [1] | (1, 2) Dalgaard, Peter, “Introductory Statistics With R”, Springer, 2002. |
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| [2] | Wikipedia, “Student’s t-distribution”https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Student’s_t-distribution |
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Examples
From Dalgaard page 83 [1], suppose the daily energy intake for 11 women in kilojoules (kJ) is:
intake = np.array([5260., 5470, 5640, 6180, 6390, 6515, 6805, 7515,
... 7515, 8230, 8770])
Does their energy intake deviate systematically from the recommended value of 7725 kJ?
We have 10 degrees of freedom, so is the sample mean within 95% of the recommended value?
s = np.random.standard_t(10, size=100000) np.mean(intake) 6753.636363636364 intake.std(ddof=1) 1142.1232221373727
Calculate the t statistic, setting the ddof parameter to the unbiased value so the divisor in the standard deviation will be degrees of freedom, N-1.
t = (np.mean(intake)-7725)/(intake.std(ddof=1)/np.sqrt(len(intake))) import matplotlib.pyplot as plt h = plt.hist(s, bins=100, density=True)
For a one-sided t-test, how far out in the distribution does the t statistic appear?
np.sum(s<t) / float(len(s)) 0.0090699999999999999 #random
So the p-value is about 0.009, which says the null hypothesis has a probability of about 99% of being true.
