Friday, September 26, 2008

Is it hopelessly geeky of me that I'm very happy I was able to find a small subset of data from William Sealey Gosset (the originator of the t-test) to put in a homework I am giving my stats students?

I mean, I kind of live for stuff like that - being able to do the historical connections, but I suspect a lot of other people don't really care. (And yes, I told the students on the homework that it was Gosset's data. Thinking back, I probably should have offered an extra credit point for anyone who could tell me who Gosset was, except that we live in the Age of Google and that would probably be too easy.)

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