Person: Gosset, William Sealy
Gosset invented the t-test to handle small samples for quality control in brewing. He wrote under the name "Student".
Mathematical Profile (Excerpt):
- William was educated at Winchester, where his favourite hobby was shooting, then entered New College Oxford where he studied chemistry and mathematics.
- Gosset obtained a post as a chemist with Arthur Guinness Son and Company in 1899.
- Many people are familiar with the name "Student" but not with the name Gosset.
- Gosset wrote under the name "Student" which explains why his name may be less well known than his important results in statistics.
- Gosset discovered the form of the ttt distribution by a combination of mathematical and empirical work with random numbers, an early application of the Monte-Carlo method.
- Gosset certainly did not work in isolation.
- At the end of 1935 Gosset left Ireland to take charge of the new Guinness brewery in London.
Born 13 June 1876, Canterbury, England. Died 16 October 1937, Beaconsfield, England.
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Origin England, Statistics
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