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

1996/12/01 by J. Pfanzagl · 1 citation
Mathematics · #Probability and Statistical Research

paper · doi:10.1093/biomet/83.4.891

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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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