Student's t distribution
Student's t
Probability density function
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Cumulative distribution function
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Parameters |
degrees of freedom (real) |
Support |
x ∈ (−∞; +∞) |
PDF |
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CDF |
![\begin{matrix}
\frac{1}{2} + x \Gamma \left( \frac{\nu+1}{2} \right) \times\\[0.5em]
\frac{\,_2F_1 \left ( \frac{1}{2},\frac{\nu+1}{2};\frac{3}{2};
-\frac{x^2}{\nu} \right)}
{\sqrt{\pi\nu}\,\Gamma \left(\frac{\nu}{2}\right)}
\end{matrix}](https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/7c3c84e8f1257dce799724d08e3b08389944045d)
where 2F1 is the hypergeometric function
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Mean |
0 for , otherwise undefined
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Median |
0 |
Mode |
0 |
Variance |
for , ∞ for , otherwise undefined
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Skewness |
0 for , otherwise undefined
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Ex. kurtosis |
for , ∞ for , otherwise undefined
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Entropy |
![{\displaystyle {\begin{matrix}{\frac {\nu +1}{2}}\left[\psi \left({\frac {1+\nu }{2}}\right)-\psi \left({\frac {\nu }{2}}\right)\right]\\[0.5em]+\ln {\left[{\sqrt {\nu }}B\left({\frac {\nu }{2}},{\frac {1}{2}}\right)\right]}\,{\scriptstyle {\text{(nats)}}}\end{matrix}}}](https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/8e64e6a7fd1bb08a7129701a00f10b4dc673c589)
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MGF |
undefined |
CF |
for 
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![\begin{matrix}
\frac{1}{2} + x \Gamma \left( \frac{\nu+1}{2} \right) \times\\[0.5em]
\frac{\,_2F_1 \left ( \frac{1}{2},\frac{\nu+1}{2};\frac{3}{2};
-\frac{x^2}{\nu} \right)}
{\sqrt{\pi\nu}\,\Gamma \left(\frac{\nu}{2}\right)}
\end{matrix}](https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/7c3c84e8f1257dce799724d08e3b08389944045d)
![{\displaystyle {\begin{matrix}{\frac {\nu +1}{2}}\left[\psi \left({\frac {1+\nu }{2}}\right)-\psi \left({\frac {\nu }{2}}\right)\right]\\[0.5em]+\ln {\left[{\sqrt {\nu }}B\left({\frac {\nu }{2}},{\frac {1}{2}}\right)\right]}\,{\scriptstyle {\text{(nats)}}}\end{matrix}}}](https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/8e64e6a7fd1bb08a7129701a00f10b4dc673c589)
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