"Student's t test" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: Student's t tests [plural]
Etymology: From Student, the pen-name of William Sealy Gosset, Irish statistician, who documented this test in a paper in Biometrika. Through the popularization of this test in the work of Ronald Fisher, who referred to it as a test for value "t" to check for Student's distribution. Head templates: {{en-noun|head=Student's t test}} Student's t test (plural Student's t tests)
  1. (statistics) Any statistical hypothesis test in which the test statistic has a Student's t-distribution if the null hypothesis is true. Wikipedia link: en:Biometrika, en:Ronald Fisher, en:Student's t test, en:William Sealy Gosset Categories (topical): Statistics Synonyms: Student's t [statistics, mathematics, sciences], t test [statistics, mathematics, sciences], Student's t-test Related terms: Student's t distribution
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