Introduction
At various points in this book, we need to use the Boost libraries. Specifically, we have two aspects that we need and which are prerequisites for some of the projects. The first is that we use the Boost.Math libraries for some of the basic statistics and also for performing the t-test. Specifically, we use the cdf of the Student's t-distribution to compute the p-value (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Student%27s_t-distribution). The second requirement is that we need a built version of the Boost.Python libraries. This build needs to be consistent with the version of Python that we are targeting in order to build the Python extension modules. In this case, we use Python version 3.8.
This appendix provides a ...