The ______ is an inferential statistic used to determine the number of standard deviations in a t distribution that a sample mean deviates from the mean value or mean difference stated in the null hypothesis.
A) t distribution
B) t statistic
C) standard error
D) degrees of freedom

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The t statistic is used to determine the number of standard deviations a sample mean deviates from the mean stated in the null hypothesis. The t distribution is the distribution of this t statistic. The standard error is the standard deviation of the sampling distribution of the sample mean, and degrees of freedom refers to the number of values in the final calculation of a statistic that are free to vary.

The ______ Is an Inferential Statistic Used to Determine the Number