Student's t-test
Prueba t de Student
- Date
- 1908 · confidence high
- Place
- Dublin, Ireland
- Credited to
- William Sealy Gosset
- Field
- Knowledge & symbols
What was discovered
Gosset, a chemist at the Guinness brewery in Dublin, developed this statistical test to compare means with small samples, a common problem in beer quality control. Guinness required him to publish under a pseudonym, and he signed as "Student", the name by which the test has been known ever since.
What it led to
- Modern inferential statistics with small samples
- Fisher's experimental design
Built on
- Gaussian normal distribution