page_title: William Sealy Gosset
hierarchical_section_title: William Sealy Gosset
caption_attribution_description: English: British statistician William Sealy Gosset, known as "Student", taken in 1908 Français&#160;: William Sealy Gosset, connu sous le nom de «&#160;Student&#160;», statisticien anglais. Photographie prise en 1908 Polski: William Sealy Gosset, statystyk angielski.
context_page_description: 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. Gosset published under the pen name Student and developed most famously Student's t-distribution – originally called Student's "z" – and "Student's test of statistical significance".
context_section_description: William Sealy Gosset (13 June 1876 – 16 October 1937) 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. Gosset published under the pen name Student and developed most famously Student's t-distribution – originally called Student's "z" – and "Student's test of statistical significance".
caption: William Sealy Gosset (aka Student) in 1908 (age 32)
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