Student's t test
English
Alternative forms
- Student's t-test
Etymology
From Student, the pen-name of William Sealy Gosset, Irish statistician, who documented this test in a paper in Biometrika. Through the popularization of this test in the work of Ronald Fisher, who referred to it as a test for value "t" to check for Student's distribution.
Noun
Student's t test (plural Student's t tests)
- (statistics) Any statistical hypothesis test in which the test statistic has a Student's t-distribution if the null hypothesis is true.
Synonyms
- (statistics): Student's t, t test
Related terms
- Student's t distribution