Person: Gosset, William Sealy

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Gosset invented the t-test to handle small samples for quality control in brewing. He wrote under the name "Student".

Mathematical Profile (Excerpt):

Born 13 June 1876, Canterbury, England. Died 16 October 1937, Beaconsfield, England.

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Origin England, Statistics


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References

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  1. O’Connor, John J; Robertson, Edmund F: MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive