This table provides critical values (tα/ν) of the Student's t-distribution for various confidence levels (α) with degrees of freedom (ν) ranging from 1 to infinity. The t-distribution is used to test hypotheses about the mean of a population when the population standard deviation is unknown. The table allows researchers to determine if a calculated t-statistic is greater than the critical value and thus determine if the null hypothesis can be rejected for a given confidence level and degrees of freedom.