William Sealy Gosset | |
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 William Sealy Gosset (aka Student) in 1908 (age 32) | |
| Born | 13 June 1876 Canterbury, Kent, England |
| Died | 16 October 1937 (aged 61) Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, England |
| Other names | Student |
| Alma mater | Winchester College, New College, Oxford |
| Known for | Student's t-distribution, statistical significance, design of experiments, Monte Carlo method, quality control, Modern synthesis, agricultural economics, econometrics |
| Children | 5, including Isaac Henry Gosset |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | Guinness Brewery |
William Sealy Gosset (13 June 1876 – 16 October 1937) was an English statistician, chemist and brewer who served as Head Brewer of Guinness and Head Experimental Brewer of Guinness and was a pioneer of modern statistics. He pioneered small sample experimental design and analysis with an economic approach to the logic of uncertainty. Gosset published under the pen name Student and developed most famously Student's t-distribution – originally called Student's "z" – and "Student's test of statistical significance".[1]