Professor Smith's research assistant is hard at work again. This time the Professor has asked the assistant to begin some basic inferential analysis....

Professor Smith's research assistant is hard at work again. This time the Professor has asked the assistant to begin some basic inferential analysis. The assistant has been given a data set consisting of 45 observations taken by the professor for a study into neighborhood design and crime. The assistant is now at the point of trying to apply one of the theoretical distributions to the results obtained in the first round of analysis. Should the assistant try to apply the principles of the Z distribution or those associated with the t distribution?