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Student's t distribution en · NOUN

Etymology

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.

Meanings

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:
- Markowitz contends that the weight of the evidence supports a conclusion that the Student's t-distribution is a better model of stock returns than either the normal distribution or the stable Paretian. 2012, Paul D. Kaplan, Frontiers of Modern Asset Allocation, Wiley, page 358:
- To the best of our knowledge, our study is the first empirical implementation of the skewed t-copula to generate meta-skewed Student's t-distributions. 2013, Manuel Ammann, Stephan Süss, “Asymmetric dependence patterns in financial time series”, in Alexandra Dias, Mark Salmon, Chris Adcock, editors, Copulae and Multivariate Probability Distributions in Finance, Taylor & Francis (Routledge), page 95:
- 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:
- The graph of the probability density function of the Student's t distribution is a symmetric and bell-shaped curve, differing for different sample sizes. 2014, Mohammad Ahsanullah, B.M. Golam Kibria, Mohammad Shakil, Normal and Student's t Distributions and Their Applications, Springer, page 51: