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Student

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 June 2014

Caoimhghin S Breathnach
Caoimhghin S Breathnach*
Affiliation:
Department of Physiology, University College Dublin, Earlsfort Terrace, Dublin 2, Ireland
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Abstract

William Sealy Gosset [1876-1937] was a brewer in Arthur Guinness and Co. Dublin from 1899 to 1935 when he moved to London. In 1907, writing under the nom de plume Student he published his paper on “the probable error of a mean” which was later developed by R A Fisher into Student's test of significance now in everyday use in biology and industry.

Keywords

GossetStudent's t testPearsonFisher
Type
Historical
Information
Irish Journal of Psychological Medicine , Volume 10 , Issue 3 , October 1993 , pp. 164 - 165
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1993

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