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William Sealy Gosset

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Gender Male
Death86 years ago
Date of birth June 13,1876
Zodiac sign Gemini
Born Canterbury
United Kingdom
Date of died October 16,1937
DiedBeaconsfield
United Kingdom
Known forStudent's t-distribution
SpouseMarjory Surtees Phillpotts
BooksStudent: A Statistical Biography of William Sealy Gosset
Job Statistician
Education University of Oxford
New College
Winchester College
Parents Agnes Sealy Gosset
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William Sealy Gosset Life story


William Sealy Gosset was an English statistician, chemist and brewer who served as Head Brewer of Guinness and Head Experimental Brewer of Guinness and was a pioneer of modern statistics. He pioneered small sample experimental design and analysis with an economic approach to the logic of uncertainty.

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