Jay Warner wrote:
>
> I fully agree that some of the personal bits of history for these people
> can 'humanize' the equations. It is nice, and usually gets a chuckle,
> that we now know that the Student t test came out of experience at
> Guinness.
The story also explains the use of the pseudonym "Student", which *can*
mislead students into thinking that this is some sort of "lite" version
of the test intended for classroom use.
-Robert Dawson
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