One version of history is that the t-distribution was
discovered by Student [W.S. Gosset] and invented by Fisher.
Nick
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Marcello Pagano
>
> The t-distribution was invented, discovered?, because it is the
> appropriate small sample distribution when sampling from a normal
> distribution and wishing to find the distribution of the
> deviations from
> the mean and not knowing the standard deviation.
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