See Also: fermentive(dictionary)

Student (iou) and fermentive (iou)


Student (iou)



Student noun2. E20.
[Pseudonym of William Sealy Gosset (1876-1937), English brewery employee.]
Statistics. Used attrib. and in possess. to designate statistical concepts devised by Student.
Student distribution, Student's distribution, Student's t-distribution, Student t-distribution [t arbitrary] a statistical distribution which is that of a fraction whose numerator is drawn from a normal distribution with a mean of zero and whose denominator is the root mean square of k terms drawn from the same normal distribution (where k is the number of degrees of freedom). Student's test, Student's t test a test for statistical significance that uses tables of Student's distribution.

fermentive (iou)



fermentive adjective. M17.
[from FERMENT noun, verb + -IVE.]
Tending to produce fermentation.