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Studies in the history of probability and statistics XLIV A forerunner of the t-distribution

J. PFANZAGL, O. SHEYNIN

Biometrika · 1996 · Volume 83 · Issue 4

DOI: 10.1093/biomet/83.4.891

Abstract

The t -distribution first occurred in a paper by Lüroth (1876) on the classical theory of errors in connection with a Bayesian result.

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