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Student's t distribution

Student's t distribution noun: a distribution that arises when the population standard deviation is unknown and has to be estimated from the data.

Noun

Student's t distribution (plural Student's t distributions)

  1. A distribution that arises when the population standard deviation is unknown and has to be estimated from the data.
    • A complete description of the Student's t distribution is beyond the aims of this book.2009, Francesco Sardanelli, Giovanni Di Leo, “Biostatistics for Radiologists: Planning, Performing, and Writing a Radiologic Study”, in [2008, Biostatistica in Radiologia], Springer, page 59
    • In contrast, the 0.95 confidence interval for μ is (577.1,623.4), assuming T does indeed have a Student's t distribution.2011, Rand Wilcox, Modern Statistics for the Social and Behavioral Sciences: A Practical Introduction, Taylor & Francis (CRC Press), page 155

Synonyms of Student's t distribution

Forms of Student's t distribution

pluralStudent's t distributions
alternative formStudent's t-distribution

Origin of Student's t distribution

From the pen-name of Irish statistician William Sealy Gosset, which he used for a 1908 paper in Biometrika, under the pseudonym Student. The distribution was popularised through the work of Ronald Fisher, who referred to it as Student's distribution and used the letter t to represent the test value.

Questions about Student's t distribution

What does Student's t distribution mean?
Student's t distribution means a distribution that arises when the population standard deviation is unknown and has to be estimated from the data.
What part of speech is Student's t distribution?
Student's t distribution is a noun.
What is the plural of Student's t distribution?
The plural of Student's t distribution is Student's t distributions.

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