Student Resampled His t Distribution

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I was reading William Sealy Gosset’s paper where he introduced the t distribution for small-sample hypothesis testing.11 The Probable Error of a Mean; Gosset a.k.a. Student; Biometrika; 1908. In it he derives the distribution analytically, but also adds that Before I had succeeded in solving my problem analytically, I had endeavoured to do so empirically. The material used was a correlation...