thanks guys, the reason i wanted p value from table was for my up comming exam on intro statistics. and only table and handheld calculator are allowed.
now i have confirmed form the TA that an approximation as suggested is good enough, and thus, the problem is solved. thank you vary much. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Warren) wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > Loki, > As the old TV commercial said "You can't get theah from heah". You > have > discovered the limitations of using tables...they work fine for > finding > the cut-points for hypothesis testing and for confidence interval > construction, > but not so well for finding p-values. > > You CAN get an approximate p-value, say between 0.025 and 0.050 and > you > MIGHT extrapolate between those to get something close. But in an age > of good stats software and relatively cheap computing, why bother? > Most stats packages (SPSS, SAS, etc.) will give you the "p-value" for > the standard normal, Student's t, the chi-square and F distributions. > > There is some value in learning to read the tables. I remember > learning to > read the logarithm tables and to use a slide rule, but I can't > remember the > last time I did either of those. > > Warren > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (loki) wrote in message >news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > > i know this is vary basic to many of you, but i just cann't make that out myself. > > > > how do u find the p value of the t-test from the distribution table? > > its entirly different from the z-test. > > > > for example: > > t=2 , df=10, p-value=...........??? > > > > > > thank u vary much . . ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at: . http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ . =================================================================
