On the history and use of some standard statistical models
What if R. A. Fisher was hired by the Royal Observatory in spite that his interest was biology and agriculture, or W. S. Gosset[1] instead of brewery? An article by E.L. Lehmann made me think this what if. If so, astronomers could have handled errors better than now. Continue reading ‘On the history and use of some standard statistical models’ »
- Gosset’s pen name was Student, from which the name, Student-t in t-distribution or t-test was spawned.[↩]