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We know that any normal distribution can be transformed into a t-distribution as shown in this post: Transformation of any normal distribution into a standardized t-distribution

My question is can we transform a t-distribution into a normal distribution?

Hepdrey
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    What sort of transformations do you consider? One can always transform a distribution to another distribution via the quantile and inverse quantile functions. The transformation that you link to is of a different kind and involves the division by another random variable (which is actually not really a transformation). So could you be more specific about this. – Sextus Empiricus Aug 06 '23 at 19:44
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    What you linked is not a transformation. What is your purpose? It sounds to me like the problem you're trying to solve is <X>, and you're wondering if <Y> is a good way to go about it. Is that fair? Because if your real question is "<X>?" then I would suggest only asking about that. As its written right now, the question appears to be an XY Problem. – kjetil b halvorsen Aug 07 '23 at 02:29
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    Such questions (about transforming specific distributions to Normality) are FAQs: see this site search for many variants and their answers. After performing such a transformation you can follow it with an arbitrary transformation of a Normal distribution to a Normal distribution. Conclusion: "this same construction gives many non-affine transformations that will map a variable X with any given continuous distribution into another variable that is identically distributed." – whuber Aug 07 '23 at 13:35

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