[HN Gopher] The t-test was invented at the Guinness brewery
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       The t-test was invented at the Guinness brewery
        
       Author : rmason
       Score  : 17 points
       Date   : 2024-05-26 20:55 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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       | mmastrac wrote:
       | Interesting read. I don't think this came up in my stats classes:
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       | > Gosset solved many problems at the brewery with his new
       | technique. The self-taught statistician published his t-test
       | under the pseudonym "Student" because Guinness didn't want to tip
       | off competitors to its research. Although Gosset pioneered
       | industrial quality control and contributed loads of other ideas
       | to quantitative research, most textbooks still call his great
       | achievement the "Student's t-test."
        
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