''Student''-related Material from Macdonell (1901); Student (1908); Census of Ireland (1911); Lane-Claypon (1912); Fisher (1915); Hanley, Julien, and Moodie (2008)
Height and finger-length data, gathered by Macdonell (1901), and used by Student (1908)
[ finger size, 22 height frequencies, marginal frequency ]
Let James.Hanley@McGill.CA know of any discrepancies between the datafile provided here, and the hard copy.
Thanks to S. Ziliak
for helping JH locate these.
For more details, see link
'The method introduced by "Student" is applicable for small number of
observations.' (p46).
(Copy of report is courtesy of Norman Breslow)
2008 article by J. Hanley, M. Julien and E. Moodie
Student's z, t, and s:
What if Gosset had R? Hanley J, Julien M, and Moodie E.
The American Statistician, February 2008]
Supplementary Figures, with results for finger length [Hanley et al. ]
Expanded version of Fisher's Derivation of pdf( s, xbar ) [Hanley et al.]
Presentations
Statistical Society of Montreal 2008.03.07
[a shortened version of this talk was given at Statistical Society of Canada 2008.05.29]
Special Session: Gosset Centenary (IBS/ISA) Dublin 2008.07.16
[session organized by Irish Statistical Association]
1st extra-mural Use of Student's z distribution
[Departmental Seminar Series, McGill University 2008.10.27].
Material courtesy of Warren Winkelstein, Jr.
NEW
Video (.mp4 30min) and
lyrics (2400 words)
2017 SSC Meeting, Winnipeg 2017.06.13
Unveiling of Plaque to Gosset: Guinness Storehouse July 14 2008, and Centenary Session at IBC2008
Photos by JH
Peter Macdonald
[updated June 06, 2016]