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William Sealy Gosset

British statistician

Died when: 61 years 125 days (736 months)
Star Sign: Gemini

 

William Sealy Gosset

William Sealy Gosset (13 June 1876 – 16 October 1937) was an English statistician, chemist and brewer who served as Head Brewer of Guinness and Head Experimental Brewer of Guinness and was a pioneer of modern statistics.

He pioneered small sample experimental design and analysis with an economic approach to the logic of uncertainty.Gosset published under the pen name Student and developed most famously Student's t-distribution – originally called Student's "z" – and "Student's test of statistical significance".


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