William Sealy Gosset

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William Sealy Gosset was an English statistician and brewer best known for developing Student’s t-distribution and pioneering small-sample statistical methods.

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instanceOf brewer
person
statistician
academicDegree degree in chemistry and mathematics
countryOfCitizenship England
United Kingdom
dateOfBirth 1876-06-13
dateOfDeath 1937-10-16
educatedAt New College, Oxford NERFINISHED
Winchester College NERFINISHED
employer Arthur Guinness & Son NERFINISHED
Guinness Brewery NERFINISHED
era 20th-century statistics
familyName Gosset NERFINISHED
fieldOfWork brewing
statistics
givenName William
influenced Ronald A. Fisher NERFINISHED
modern statistical inference
influencedBy Karl Pearson NERFINISHED
Ronald A. Fisher NERFINISHED
knownFor Student's t-distribution NERFINISHED
Student's t-test NERFINISHED
small-sample statistical methods
languageOfWorkOrName English
memberOf Royal Statistical Society NERFINISHED
name William Sealy Gosset NERFINISHED
nationality English
notableConcept t-distribution NERFINISHED
t-statistic NERFINISHED
notableWork The probable error of a mean NERFINISHED
placeOfBirth Canterbury NERFINISHED
England
Kent NERFINISHED
placeOfDeath Beaconsfield NERFINISHED
Buckinghamshire NERFINISHED
England
positionHeld Head Brewer at Guinness
pseudonym Student NERFINISHED
publicationYearOfNotableWork 1908
reasonForPseudonym Guinness policy forbidding staff from publishing under their own names
sexOrGender male
specialization experimental design in brewing
quality control
workLocation Dublin NERFINISHED
Ireland NERFINISHED

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