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The confidence level is the percentage of times you expect to get close to the same estimate if you run your experiment again or resample the population in the same way. The confidence interval consists of the upper and lower bounds of the estimate you expect to find at a given level of confidence.
Student’s t table is also known as the t table, t-distribution table, t-score table, t-value table, or t-test table. A critical value of t defines the threshold for significance for certain statistical tests and the upper and lower bounds of confidence intervals for certain estimates.
The confidence level represents the proportion (frequency) of acceptable confidence intervals that contain the true value of the unknown parameter. In other terms, the confidence intervals are evaluated using the given confidence level from an endless number of independent samples.
This t-distribution table provides the critical t-values for both one-tailed and two-tailed t-tests, and confidence intervals. Learn how to use this t-table with the information, examples, and illustrations below the table.
What is the Confidence Level? The confidence level is the long-run probability that a series of confidence intervals will contain the true value of the population parameter. Different random samples drawn from the same population are likely to produce slightly different intervals.
The probability that the confidence interval includes the true mean value within a population is called the confidence level of the CI. You can calculate a CI for any confidence level you like, but the most commonly used value is 95%.
Use a t-value to find critical values when the population size is small or you don't know the standard deviation.
Calculating the confidence interval requires you to know three parameters of your sample: the mean value, μ, the standard deviation, σ, and the sample size, n (number of measurements taken). Then you can calculate the standard error and then the margin of error according to the following formulas: standard error = σ/√n.
This page titled 12.2: Normal Critical Values for Confidence Levels is shared under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license and was authored, remixed, and/or curated by Kathryn Kozak via source content that was edited to the style and standards of the LibreTexts platform.
Appendix A A3 Right Tail Probability t TABLE B t Distribution Critical Values Confidence Level 80% 90% 95% 98% 99% 99.8% Right-Tail Probability df 1 3.078 6.314 12.706 31.821 63.656 318.289