Abstract
This month marks the 100th anniversary of the appearance of William Sealey Gosset's celebrated article, "The Probable Error of a Mean" (Student 1908a). Gosset's elegant result represented the first in a series of exact, "small-sample" results that were developed by Gosset, Fisher, and others to form a central component of the modern theory of statistical inference. This review celebrates the centenary of Gosset's article by discussing both its background and its impact on statistical theory and practice.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 1-7 |
| Number of pages | 7 |
| Journal | Journal of the American Statistical Association |
| Volume | 103 |
| Issue number | 481 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Mar 2008 |
Keywords
- Cushny and peebles experiment
- Egon pearson
- Fiducial inference
- Friedrich robert helmert
- Physical randomization
- Robustness
- Ronald aylmer fisher
- Student
- T-distribution
- William sealy gosset
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Statistics and Probability
- Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty