Student's t test

English

Alternative forms

• Student's t-test

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.

Noun

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.

Synonyms

• (statistics): Student's t, t test

Related terms

• Student's t distribution