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Describes how WS Gosset (Student) came to develop the t-test.
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A history of the t-test covering not only Student's paper of 1908 but also how his work was anticipated and what Fisher did to develop it further. The story of the Cushny and Peebles data that Student used is also given.
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This page is a summary of: A century oft-tests, Significance, March 2008, Oxford University Press (OUP),
DOI: 10.1111/j.1740-9713.2008.00279.x.
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