Student's t distribution

[ stood-nts tee dis-truh-byoo-shuhn, styood-nts ]

noun

, Statistics.

1. another term for t distribution.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Student's t distribution¹

First recorded in 1925–30; after Student, pseudonym of English statistician William Sealy Gosset (1876–1937); t represents a random variable in the equation describing this type of distribution