Pearson E.S., Plackett R.L., Barnard G.A. ’Student’: A Statistical Biography of William Sealy Gosset

London: Clarendon Press, 1990. — 150 p."‘Student’ was the pseudonym which William Sealy Gosset used when publishing his scientific work. He was employed for the whole of his working life as a Brewer with Arthur Guinness, Son & Co. Ltd., as the firm was then called, but his publications over thirty years during the early part of the twentieth century, and his friendship with other statistical pioneers, have had a profound effect on the practical use of statistics in industry and agriculture. The account of his work and correspondence which follows has been developed from the writings of Egon Sharpe Pearson, who knew him well. After Gosset’s death in 1937, Pearson published an essay on ‘Student’ as statistician, and towards the end of his own life in 1980 he commented in typescript on his correspondence with Gosset, as well as on the earlier correspondence between his father Karl Pearson and Gosset. We have attempted to collate and edit all this material with the objective of presenting a rounded biography of a distinguished statistician, whose attractive personality shone out in everything that he did."BackgroundCombination of observations
Biometry
Books used by Gosset
Karl Pearson’s lectures
William Sealy GossetEarly statistical career
Correspondence
Professional activities
Character and personality
Karl PearsonCorrelation
Timeseries
Discrete distributions
Comment and criticism
Ronald A. FisherProbability integral of _t_
_Statistical methods for research workers_
Design of experiments
Advice and argument
Egon S. Pearson
Historical introduction
Difficulties about _z_ and chi^2?
Order statistics and range
Random numbers and sampling experiments
Review of _Statistical methods for research workers_
Effects of non-normality
Differences on _z_-test and design of experiments
Final comments by E. S. Pearson
General commentary
Notes on the textSubject index
Name index