1992 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
The Generalization of Student’s Ratio
Author : Harold Hotelling
Published in: Breakthroughs in Statistics
Publisher: Springer New York
Included in: Professional Book Archive
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The accuracy of an estimate of a normally distributed quantity is judged by reference to its variance, or rather, to an estimate of the variance based on the available sample. In 1908 “Student” examined the ratio of the mean to the standard deviation of a sample.1 The distribution at which he arrived was obtained in a more rigorous manner in 1925 by R.A. Fisher,2 who at the same time showed how to extend the application of the distribution beyond the problem of the significance of means, which had been its original object, and applied it to examine regression coefficients and other quantities obtained by least squares, testing not only the deviation of a statistic from a hypothetical value but also the difference between two statistics.