“I fancy you give me credit for being a more systematic sort of cove than I really am in the matter of limits of significance. What would actually happen would be that I should make out Pt (normal) and say to myself that would be about 50:1; pretty good but as it may not be normal we'd best not be too certain, or 100:1; even allowing that it may not be normal it seems good enough and whether one would be content with that or would require further work would depend on the importance of the conclusion and the difficulty of obtaining suitable experience.”
Quote by William Sealy Gosset
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William Sealy Gosset
William Sealy Gosset was an English statistician known for his contributions to statistical inference and the theory of sample variance. During his work at the Guinness brewery, he developed the t-distribution, an important tool for hypothesis testing when sample sizes are small. more
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