Student's t test

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Etymology

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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.

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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.

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