Student's t-distribution

Summary

Student's t-distribution ranks in the top 1% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,341 views/month).^[1]

Key Facts

• Student's t-distribution is credited with the discovery of William Sealy Gosset^[2].
• William Sealy Gosset is named after Student's t-distribution^[3].
• Student's t-distribution's subclass of is recorded as multivariate t-distribution^[4].
• Student's t-distribution's subclass of is recorded as noncentral t-distribution^[5].
• Student's t-distribution's subclass of is recorded as location-scale family^[6].
• Student's t-distribution's subclass of is recorded as symmetric probability distribution^[7].
• Student's t-distribution's subclass of is recorded as univariate probability distribution^[8].
• Student's t-distribution's subclass of is recorded as continuous probability distribution^[9].
• Student's t-distribution's Commons category is recorded as Student's t-distribution^[10].
• Student's t-distribution's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0qdxm^[11].
• Student's t-distribution's described by source is recorded as ISO 3534-1:2006(en) Statistics — Vocabulary and symbols — Part 1: General statistical terms and terms used in probability^[12].
• Student's t-distribution's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/Students-t-distribution^[13].
• Student's t-distribution's defining formula is recorded as f(x) = \frac{\operatorname{\Gamma}\left( \frac{\nu + 1}{2} \right)}{\sqrt{\pi \nu} \operatorname{\Gamma}\left( \frac{\nu}{2} \right)} \left( 1 + \frac{x^2}{\nu} \right)^{-\frac{\nu + 1}{2}}^[14].
• Student's t-distribution's MathWorld ID is recorded as Studentst-Distribution^[15].
• Student's t-distribution's Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID is recorded as 4170429^[16].
• Student's t-distribution's Quora topic ID is recorded as T-Distribution^[17].
• Student's t-distribution's Elhuyar ZTH ID is recorded as 137966^[18].
• Student's t-distribution's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4^[19].
• Student's t-distribution's maintained by WikiProject is recorded as WikiProject Mathematics^[20].
• Student's t-distribution's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 49232408^[21].
• Student's t-distribution's in defining formula is recorded as f(x)^[22].
• Student's t-distribution's in defining formula is recorded as \operatorname{\Gamma}(x)^[23].
• Student's t-distribution's in defining formula is recorded as \nu^[24].
• Student's t-distribution's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C49232408^[25].
• Student's t-distribution's support of a function is recorded as x \in \mathbb{R}^[26].

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Works and Contributions

Student's t-distribution is credited with the discovery of William Sealy Gosset^[2].

Why It Matters

Student's t-distribution ranks in the top 1% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,341 views/month).^[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 23 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[27] It is known by 19 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[28]