Practice mode Hypothesis Testing

How many degrees of freedom does a one-sample t-test based on 20 observations have?

Correct answer C. 19

Explanation

For a one-sample t-test the degrees of freedom are n − 1, because one parameter (the mean) is estimated from the data. Here 20 − 1 = 19.

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