Statistics Topics

Plain-language companions to the interactive z table — the concepts behind the numbers, one page each.

Z-Score

Formula, interpretation, worked examples

Normal Distribution

The bell curve and the 68-95-99.7 rule

Z-Test

When to use it and how it works

P-Value

What it means - and what it doesn’t

Confidence Interval

Where 1.96 comes from

Variance vs Standard Deviation

The units difference, plainly

Sample vs Population SD

The N vs n-1 trap

Null Hypothesis

Rejection logic and error types

Degrees of Freedom

An intuitive explanation

Skewed Distributions

Left vs right skew, real examples

Z-Scores in Excel

Formula-by-formula how-to

Altman Z-Score

The bankruptcy formula (finance)