Student's t distribution

American  

[stood-nts tee dis-truh-byoo-shuhn, styood-nts] / ˈstud nts ˈti dɪs trəˌbyu ʃən, ˈstyud nts /

Also Student t distribution

noun

Statistics.

1. another term for t distribution.

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Etymology

Origin of Student's t distribution

First recorded in 1925–30; after Student, pseudonym of English statistician William Sealy Gosset (1876–1937); t represents a random variable in the equation describing this type of distribution