Function File: [m, v] = tstat (n)

Compute mean and variance of the t (Student) distribution.

Arguments

• n is the parameter of the t (Student) distribution. The elements of n must be positive

Return values

• m is the mean of the t (Student) distribution
• v is the variance of the t (Student) distribution

Example

n = 3:8;
[m, v] = tstat (n)

References

1. Wendy L. Martinez and Angel R. Martinez. Computational Statistics Handbook with MATLAB. Appendix E, pages 547-557, Chapman & Hall/CRC, 2001.
2. Athanasios Papoulis. Probability, Random Variables, and Stochastic Processes. McGraw-Hill, New York, second edition, 1984.

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