William Sealy Gosset
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William Sealy Gosset was an English statistician, chemist and brewer who worked for Guinness. In statistics, he pioneered small-sample experimental design. Gosset published under the pen name Student
William Sealy Gosset (aka Student) in 1908 (age 32)
Plaque in the Guinness storehouse commemorating Gosset
Ronald Fisher
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Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher was an English polymath who was active as a mathematician, statistician, biologist, geneticist, and academic. He has been described as "a genius who almost single-handedly cre
William Sealy Gosset
…academic papers, including The probable error of a mean, in Pearson's journal Biometrika under the pseudonym Student. It was, however, not Pearson but Ronald A. Fisher who appreciated the understudied importance of Gosset's small-sample work. Fisher wrote to Gosset in 1912, explaining that Student's z-distribution…
Fisher in 1913
As a child
Inverforth House, North End Way NW3, where Fisher lived from 1896 to 1904. He is commemorated with a blue plaque.
The peacock tail in flight, the classic example of a Fisherian runaway