This month marks the 100th anniversary of the appearance of William Sealey Gosset's celebrated article, "The Probable Error of a Mean" (Student 1908a). Gosset's elegant result represented the first in a series of exact, "small-sample" results that were developed by Gosset, Fisher, and others to form a central component of the modern theory of statistical inference. This review celebrates the centenary of Gosset's article by discussing both its background and its impact on statistical theory and practice. © 2008 American Statistical Association.
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Zabell, S. L. (2008). On student’s 1908 article “the probable error of a mean.” Journal of the American Statistical Association, 103(481), 1–7. https://doi.org/10.1198/016214508000000030
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