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What the fuck is this Z-Table shit? Do people still use this horrible garbage?

>> No.6229489

>>6229486

No self respecting scientists should, but I think it is done.

>> No.6229493
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6229493

I remember my introductory stats. Why would it not be enough to answer phi(1)?

>> No.6229551

>>6229486
Well, since you'd only want to use a z-table when dealing with a model which supposes a normal distribution in the errors of an underlying laten model, no you wouldn't use a z-table. But t-tables might be used if you need some quick napkin math.

>> No.6229553

>>6229551
>laten model
latent model

>> No.6229570

Let's put it this way... if you don't know how to trivially use a z-table then you'd probably have trouble doing it any other way anyways.

>> No.6229611

>>6229570
I'm a pure math major anon. Doing computations isn't something we regularly do. Using Z-Tables is as antiquated as using Trigonometric tables to compute sine and cosine and shit. People should either use R, Octave, whatever their software package of choice is, or just leave it not computed.