In statistics, a pivotal quantity or pivot is a function of observations and unobservable parameters such that the function's probability distribution...

distribution does not depend on the unknown parameter is called a pivotal quantity or pivot. Widely used pivots include the z-score, the chi square statistic...

confidence intervals. The key property of the t statistic is that it is a pivotal quantity – while defined in terms of the sample mean, its sampling distribution...

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to pivotal quantities – functions whose sampling distribution does not depend on the parameters – and to ancillary statistics – pivotal quantities that...

frequentist confidence distribution, obtained from the distribution of the pivotal quantity x n + 1 / x ¯ {\displaystyle {x_{n+1}}/{\overline {x}}} ; a profile...

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Such a pivotal quantity, depending only on observables, is called an ancillary statistic. The usual method of constructing pivotal quantities is to take...

freedom. Thus for inference purposes the t statistic is a useful "pivotal quantity" in the case when the mean and variance (μ,σ2){\displaystyle (\mu ...

μ{\displaystyle \mu } and σ2{\displaystyle \sigma ^{2}}; i.e., it is a pivotal quantity. Suppose we wanted to calculate a 95% confidence interval for μ.{\displaystyle...