As the websites posted below gave me some problems One couldn't be found and
the other froze in the middle), would someone please explain what has
happeded to the non-central t distribution since I last checked. If the
assumptions for t are met, that is, the observations are NID with equal
variances, why would the non-central t be asymmetric.

Paul R. Swank, Ph.D.
Professor, Developmental Pediatrics
Medical School
UT Health Science Center at Houston



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[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul R Swank) wrote in
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> The non-central t is symmetric.
>
> Paul R. Swank, Ph.D.
> Professor, Developmental Pediatrics
> Medical School
> UT Health Science Center at Houston
>
>
I suggest you re-examine your belief:
http://www.itl.nist.gov/div898/software/dataplot.html/distribu.htm
and
http://www.itl.nist.gov/div898/software/dataplot.html/refman2/auxillar/nctp
df.pdf

David Winsemius, MD, MPH

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