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Student's t test
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Alternative forms
en Student's t-test
Etymology
From en Student, the pen-name of en William Sealy Gosset, Irish statistician, who documented this test in a paper in en Biometrika. Through the popularization of this test in the work of en Ronald Fisher, who referred to it as a test for value "t" to check for Student's distribution.
Noun
Student's t test
en statistics Any statistical hypothesis test in which the test statistic has a Student's t-distribution if the null hypothesis is true.
Synonyms
statistics en Student's t, en t test
Related terms
en Student's t distribution
en eponyms