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Student's t distribution

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  • noun statistics A distribution that arises when the population standard deviation is unknown and has to be estimated from the data.

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From the pen-name of William Sealy Gosset, Irish statistician

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  1. Student's t
  2. t distribution

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  1. Student's t test

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