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Why is the the t test called as such ? Why is it Named So…Guinness Beer

The t-statistic was introduced in 1908 by William Sealy Gosset, a chemist working for the Guinness brewery in Dublin, Ireland (“Student” was his pen name). Gosset had been hired due to Claude Guinness’s policy of recruiting the best graduates from Oxford and Cambridge to apply biochemistry and statistics to Guinness’s industrial processes.Gosset devised the t-test as a cheap way to monitor the quality of stout. He published the test in Biometrika in 1908, but was forced to use a pen name by his employer, who regarded the fact that they were using statistics as a trade secret. In fact, Gosset’s identity was known to fellow statisticians. Definition:

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
 A t-test is any statistical hypothesis test in which the test statistic follows a Student’s t distribution if the null hypothesis is supported. It is most commonly applied when the test statistic would follow a normal distribution if the value of a scaling term in the test statistic were known. When the scaling term is unknown and is replaced by an estimate based on the data, the test statistic (under certain conditions) follows a Student’s t distribution.

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