On Student's 1908 article - The Probable Error of a Mean

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Zabell, S. L.
• 署名单位: Northwestern University; Northwestern University
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN STATISTICAL ASSOCIATION
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0162-1459
• DOI: 10.1198/016214508000000030
• 发表日期: 2008
• 页码: 1-7
• 关键词: probability; HISTORY; statistics; samples; FISHER

摘要

This month marks the 100th anniversary of the appearance of William Sealey Gusset's celebrated article, The Probable Error of a Mean (Student 1908a). Gosset's elegant result represented the first in a series of exact, small-sample results that were developed by Gusset, Fisher, and others to form a central component of the modern theory of statistical inference. This review celebrates the centenary of Gosset's article by discussing both its background and its impact on statistical theory and practice.