The statistical test for comparing a mean with a norm or for comparing two means with small sample sizes (n 30). It is also used for testing whether a correlation coefficient or a regression coefficient is zero.
A hypothesis test based on approximating the probability histogram of the test statistic by student's t curve. T tests usually are used to test hypotheses about the mean of a population when the sample size is intermediate and the distribution of the population is known to be nearly normal.
the statistic (t), with n-1 degrees of freedom, to test a given statistical hypothesis about a population parameter. Usually used with small sample sizes (30). It is used when population standard deviation is unknown