Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

student's t distribution

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.30 in modern English

Syllables: stu-den-t's t dis-tri-bu-tion
IPA

25

Scrabble Score

21

Letters

6

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A distribution that arises when the population standard deviation is unknown and has to be estimated from the data.

Example Sentences

"A complete description of the Student's t distribution is beyond the aims of this book."
"In contrast, the 0.95 confidence interval for μ is (577.1,623.4), assuming T does indeed have a Student's t distribution."
"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."
"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."
"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."

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.

Inflected Forms

Student's t distributions (plural) Student's t-distribution (alternative)

Phrases

Student's t test

Frequently Paired Words

Student's t test bell curve Poisson distribution

Synonyms

Student's t t distribution

Questions

What does student's t distribution mean?: A distribution that arises when the population standard deviation is unknown and has to be estimated from the data.
Where does student's t distribution come from?: 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.

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