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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| William Sealy Gosset canonical | 1 |
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| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
brewer
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person ⓘ statistician ⓘ |
| academicDegree | degree in chemistry and mathematics ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
England
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United Kingdom ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1876-06-13 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1937-10-16 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
New College, Oxford
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Winchester College NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer |
Arthur Guinness & Son
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Guinness Brewery NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era | 20th-century statistics ⓘ |
| familyName | Gosset NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
brewing
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statistics ⓘ |
| givenName | William ⓘ |
| influenced |
Ronald A. Fisher
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modern statistical inference ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Karl Pearson
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Ronald A. Fisher NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Student's t-distribution
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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
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t-statistic NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork | The probable error of a mean NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Canterbury
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England ⓘ Kent NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Beaconsfield
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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
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quality control ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Dublin
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Ireland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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