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In a hypothesis test of one mean, when do we use tt instead of zz?

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When testing the population mean μ\mu with a known population standard deviation σ\sigma, the test statistic is a zz-score.

When testing μ\mu with an unknown σ\sigma, the test statistic follows the Student’s t distribution with n1n-1 degrees of freedom.

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