GrendelFish (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} gfish) wrote,@ 2008-04-03 15:12:00 |
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Bizarre fact for the day
If you've ever heard of the Student's t-distribution, this is just crazy.
Weird enough, but then I realized -- under a slightly different corporate climate, this means we could have ended up with a Guiness distribution. Reality is messed up.
If you've ever heard of the Student's t-distribution, this is just crazy.
The derivation of the t-distribution was first published in 1908 by William Sealy Gosset, while he worked at a Guinness Brewery in Dublin. He was prohibited from publishing under his own name, so the paper was written under the pseudonym Student. --Wikipedia
Weird enough, but then I realized -- under a slightly different corporate climate, this means we could have ended up with a Guiness distribution. Reality is messed up.
