"Student's t distribution" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: Student's t distributions [plural]
Etymology: From the pen-name of Irish statistician William Sealy Gosset, which he used for a 1908 paper in Biometrika, under the pseudonym Student. The distribution was popularised through the work of Ronald Fisher, who referred to it as Student's distribution and used the letter t to represent the test value. Head templates: {{en-noun|head=Student's t distribution}} Student's t distribution (plural Student's t distributions)
  1. (statistics) A distribution that arises when the population standard deviation is unknown and has to be estimated from the data. Wikipedia link: Biometrika, William Sealy Gosset, en:Ronald Fisher, en:Student's t distribution Categories (topical): Statistics Synonyms: Student's t [statistics, mathematics, sciences], t distribution [statistics, mathematics, sciences], Student's t-distribution Related terms: Student's t test Coordinate_terms: bell curve, Poisson distribution Translations (probability distribution): Studentovo t-rozdělení [neuter] (Czech), t-jakauma (Finnish), Studentin t-jakauma (Finnish)

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