STUDENT'S T DISTRIBUTION Definition & Meaning

Student's t distribution

[ stood-nts tee dis-truh-byoo-shuhn, styood-nts ]

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noun

Statistics.

another term for t distribution.

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Origin of Student's t distribution¹

First recorded in 1925–30; after Student, pseudonym of English statistician William Sealy Gosset (1876–1937); t represents a random variable in the equation describing this type of distribution

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