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Nie
Helper I
3 years ago
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Get p value from Independent Sample T-Test

Like this thread: https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Desktop/How-to-replicate-T-TEST-excel-function-in-powerBI/m-p/2866324 I am also trying to replicate Excel's t.test using DAX.   One of the info in...
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  • Nie's avatar
    Nie
    3 years ago

    I've done some testing using Scipy in Python to check the results. T.DIST.2T does appear to give the p value if you can provide the t statistic. Why there is a T.DIST.2T but not a T.TEST in DAX is puzzling. It strongly implies the T.DIST.2T in DAX does something very different. I'll mark this as the "Solution" until I figure how what exactly T.DIST.2T does, why T.TEST is missing, and why I am forced to manually calculate the t-statistic.

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lbendlin
Super User
3 years ago

Greg_Deckler Did you ever get around to add that to your conversion list?

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    Greg_Deckler
    Community Champion
    3 years ago

    lbendlin Nie Unfortunately no, the documentation was so bad I have no idea what the heck that function is doing internally so I didn't know how to replicate it. I'll revisit and do some research on it and try to figure it out.

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      Kedar_Pande
      Super User
      2 years ago

      Hi Greg_Deckler , Did you find anything on calculating the p-value in Power BI?