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The Probable Error of a Mean

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Creators

  • William Sealy Gosset, author as Student

Canon Rationale

A core statistics paper, included for Student's t distribution, small-sample inference, and the history of statistical practice.

Evidence

  • citation context: Student, 'The Probable Error of a Mean,' Biometrika, 1908.
  • field survey: MacTutor History of Mathematics biography of William Sealy Gosset.

Audit Flags

version dependency, epistemic status required

Completion unit: read the full compact paper.

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