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Statistics and Probability STATANDPROBAB11-Q3-WEEK9

Percentiles and T-Distribution

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Direction: Read the statements carefully and choose the letter of the best answer. Write
your answer on a separate sheet of paper.
1. What is the other term for t-distribution?
A. Z-distribution
B. Probability distribution
C. Percentile distribution
D. Student’s t-distribution
2. This refers to the maximum number of logically independent values which varies in
the data sample.
A. Level of significance
B. Percentiles
C. Degree of freedom
D. Probability
3. This refers to the measure of position whose data is divided into 100 parts.
A. Percentiles
B. Quartiles
C. Deciles
D. Median
4. What is the level of significance if the confidence interval is 90% ?
A. 0.05
B. 0.10
C. 0.005
D. 0.25
5. What will be the degree of freedom of the data with a sample size of 20?
A. 17
B. 18
C. 19
D. 20

Lesson Percentile and the T-

1 Distribution

What’s In

A. Using the given data below, find the following percentiles.

40, 45, 50, 50, 56, 60, 65, 80, 90
th
1. 10 percentile
2. 25th percentile
3. 50th percentile
4. 75th percentile
5. 95th percentile

B. Answer the following questions.

1. If Peter is higher than the 75 % of the class, what is his percentile rank?
2. If the 50th percentile of the scores of the class is 80, what will be the median?
3. If the scores of the 3 students are 45, 50, and 60, what will be the 25 th
percentile?
4. If the scores are 20, 30, 50, 60, 70, 75, and 80, what will be 75 th percentile?
5. The percentile rank of Rose is 50, what percent of the class is her score
belongs?

What Is It

The t-distribution (also called Student’s t-distribution) is a family of distributions

that look almost identical to the normal distribution curve, only a bit shorter and stouter.
The t-distribution is used instead of the normal distribution when you have small
samples. The larger the sample size, the more the t distribution looks like the normal
distribution. In fact, for sample sizes larger than 20 (e.g. more degrees of freedom), the
distribution is almost exactly like the normal distribution.
 The t-distribution is similar to a normal distribution. It has a precise mathematical
definition. Instead of diving into complex math, let’s look at the useful properties of the t-
distribution and why it is important in analysis of any set of statistical quantitative data.
 Like the normal distribution, the t-distribution has a smooth shape.
 Like the normal distribution, the t-distribution is symmetric. If you think about
folding it in half at the mean, each side will be the same.
 Like a standard normal distribution (or z-distribution), the t-distribution has a
mean of zero.
 The normal distribution assumes that the population standard deviation is known.
The t-distribution does not make this assumption.
 The t-distribution is defined by the degrees of freedom. These are related to the
sample size.
 The t-distribution is most useful for small sample sizes, when the population
standard deviation is not known, or both.
 As the sample size increases, the t-distribution becomes more similar to a normal
distribution.

Using the t-table, shown on the next page we can be able to identify the t value
of a certain data.
Let us be familiar first with the following words:
1. Degree of freedom - This refers to the maximum number of logically
independent values which vary in the data sample.
2. Percentile – This is a measure of position with data divided into 100
parts.
Below is the t-table which you can use to find the t-value

right tailed area ( α )

df/v 0.40 0.25 0.10 0.05 0.025 0.01 0.005 0.0025 0.0010 0.0005
1 0.325 1.000 3.078 6.314 12.706 31.821 63.657 127.321 318.309 636.619
2 0.289 0.816 1.886 2.920 4.303 6.965 9.925 14.089 22.327 31.599
3 0.277 0.765 1.638 2.353 3.182 4.541 5.841 7.453 10.215 12.924
4 0.271 0.741 1.533 2.132 2.776 3.747 4.604 5.598 7.173 8.610
5 0.267 0.727 1.476 2.015 2.571 3.365 4.032 4.773 5.893 6.869
6 0.265 0.718 1.440 1.943 2.447 3.143 3.707 4.317 5.208 5.959
7 0.263 0.711 1.415 1.895 2.365 2.998 3.499 4.029 4.785 5.408
8 0.262 0.706 1.397 1.860 2.306 2.896 3.355 3.833 4.501 5.041
9 0.261 0.703 1.383 1.833 2.262 2.821 3.250 3.690 4.297 4.781
10 0.260 0.700 1.372 1.812 2.228 2.764 3.169 3.581 4.144 4.587
11 0.260 0.697 1.363 1.796 2.201 2.718 3.106 3.497 4.025 4.437
12 0.259 0.695 1.356 1.782 2.179 2.681 3.055 3.428 3.930 4.318
13 0.259 0.694 1.350 1.771 2.160 2.650 3.012 3.372 3.852 4.221
14 0.258 0.692 1.345 1.761 2.145 2.624 2.977 3.326 3.787 4.140
15 0.258 0.691 1.341 1.753 2.131 2.602 2.947 3.286 3.733 4.073
16 0.258 0.690 1.337 1.746 2.120 2.583 2.921 3.252 3.686 4.015
17 0.257 0.689 1.333 1.740 2.110 2.567 2.898 3.222 3.646 3.965
 18 0.257 0.688 1.330 1.734 2.101 2.552 2.878 3.197 3.610 3.922
19 0.257 0.688 1.328 1.729 2.093 2.539 2.861 3.174 3.579 3.883
20 0.257 0.687 1.325 1.725 2.086 2.528 2.845 3.153 3.552 3.850
21 0.257 0.686 1.323 1.721 2.080 2.518 2.831 3.135 3.527 3.819
22 0.256 0.686 1.321 1.717 2.074 2.508 2.819 3.119 3.505 3.792
23 0.256 0.685 1.319 1.714 2.069 2.500 2.807 3.104 3.485 3.768
24 0.256 0.685 1.318 1.711 2.064 2.492 2.797 3.091 3.467 3.745
25 0.256 0.684 1.316 1.708 2.060 2.485 2.787 3.078 3.450 3.725
26 0.256 0.684 1.315 1.706 2.056 2.479 2.779 3.067 3.435 3.707
27 0.256 0.684 1.314 1.703 2.052 2.473 2.771 3.057 3.421 3.690
28 0.256 0.683 1.313 1.701 2.048 2.467 2.763 3.047 3.408 3.674
29 0.256 0.683 1.311 1.699 2.045 2.462 2.756 3.038 3.396 3.659
30 0.256 0.683 1.310 1.697 2.042 2.457 2.750 3.030 3.385 3.646
40 0.255 0.681 1.303 1.684 2.021 2.423 2.704 2.971 3.307 3.551
60 0.254 0.679 1.296 1.671 2.000 2.390 2.660 2.915 3.232 3.460
120 0.254 0.677 1.289 1.658 1.980 2.358 2.617 2.860 3.160 3.373

Illustrative example:
1. Identify the t-value whose number of samples n = 7 and has an area (𝛼) equal to
0.05.
2. Find the t-value whose degree of freedom is 20 and has 𝛼 = 0.01.
3. Identify the t-value of the following percentiles given the number of samples.
95th percentile, n= 30
90th percentile, n=20

Solutions:
1. To identify the t-value, identify first the degree of freedom using the formula:
df =n−1=7−1=6

Locate the t-value on the t-table using the degree of freedom and the area (𝛼)
right tailed area ( α )
df/v 0.40 0.25 0.10 0.05 0.025 0.01 0.005 0.0025 0.0010 0.0005
1 0.325 1.000 3.078 6.314 12.706 31.821 63.657 127.321 318.309 636.619
2 0.289 0.816 1.886 2.920 4.303 6.965 9.925 14.089 22.327 31.599
3 0.277 0.765 1.638 2.353 3.182 4.541 5.841 7.453 10.215 12.924
4 0.271 0.741 1.533 2.132 2.776 3.747 4.604 5.598 7.173 8.610
5 0.267 0.727 1.476 2.015 2.571 3.365 4.032 4.773 5.893 6.869
6 0.265 0.718 1.440 1.943 2.447 3.143 3.707 4.317 5.208 5.959
7 0.263 0.711 1.415 1.895 2.365 2.998 3.499 4.029 4.785 5.408
Therefore, the t-value with sample size of 7 and has 𝛼 = 0.05 is 1.943.

2. Since the degree of freedom and 𝛼 are already given locate the t-value on the
 t-table.

Therefore, the t-value is 2.528.

3. a. The 95th percentile is the number where 95% of the values lie below it and
5% lie above it, so you want the right-tail area to be 0.05. Move
across the row, find the column for 0.05, and then locate the t-value using
n=30 or
df = 29.

So therefore, the t-value of P95 with n= 30 is 1.699.

 b. The 90th percentile is the number where 90% of the values lie below it and
10% lie above it, so you want the right-tail area to be 0.01. Move across
the row, find the column for 0.05, and then locate the t-value using n=20 or
df = 19.

Therefore, the t-value of 90th percentile with n= 20 is 1.328

What’s More
Direction: Complete the table below by identifying the degree of freedom, right-tailed
area and the t-value for each percentiles and the sample size.
Percentile n df Right tailed t
area

1. 60th percentile 2

2. 75th percentile 5
3. 25th percentile 15
4. 90th percentile 7
5. 95th percentile 20
 What I Have Learned

With steps closer on closing this module, answer the following questions with at
most 3 sentences. Write your answer on a separate sheet of paper.
1. What are the characteristics of a t-distribution? (Give at least 3
characteristics).
2. Enumerate the steps on identifying the t-value using the number of samples
and the right tailed area.
3. How to identify the t-value of a certain percentile using the t-table?

What I Can Do

ACTIVITY 1:
Triple Matching Type: Match column A (the t-value) to Column b (the degree of freedom) and
then to column C (the percentile).

A B C
A. 1 a. 97.5th percentile
1. 0.277
B. 6 b. 90th percentile
2. 1.734
C. 18 c. 75th percentile
3. 1.000
D. 3 d. 95th percentile
4. 1.345
E. 14 e. 60th percentile
5. 2.447

ACTIVITY 2:
Rowena wants to test a randomly selected 20 students for her study.
Identify the t-value of the following percentiles.
1. 75th percentile
2. 5th percentile
3. 60th percentile
4. 40th percentile
5. 90th percentile

Assessment

For numbers 1 to 3, use the given data below to answer the following questions.
There are 9 students who will be taking up the test, the researcher sets the level
of significance to 0.05. The following are the scores of the nine students:
23, 25, 25, 26, 27, 28, 30, 40, 45
1. What will be the t-value of the given problem?
A. 1.729
B. 1.456
C. 1.612
D. 1.551
2. What will be the value of 25th percentile?
A. 25
B. 26
C. 27
D. 28

3. Using the t-table, give the t-value of 95 th percentile?

A. 1.729
B. 1.456
C. 1.612
D. 1.551
4. What will be the degree of freedom whose t-value is 0.689?
A. 1
B. 2
C. 3
D. 4
5. Find the t-value of 25th percentile using the t-table with a degree of freedom of 6.
A. 2.570
B. 4.030
C. -2.570
D. -4.030
Reference: (ADM Module from DepEd Bataan)

Submitted by: Validated by:

CRISTY B. TAAY EDUARD O. GONONG

Teacher II Master Teacher II

VIA D. ESPILLO GAVINO L. FELIPE JR.

Teacher II Head Teacher III