studentization

English

Etymology 1

From student +‎ -ization.

Noun

studentization (uncountable)

  1. Synonym of studentification.

Etymology 2

From student (“pseuodnym of William Sealy Gossett”) +‎ -ization.

Noun

studentization (uncountable)

  1. (statistics, originally) The use of Student's t-test.
  2. (statistics, generally) The determination or use of a sampling distribution that is independent of nuisance parameters of the population distribution, which are not directly relevant to the estimates or tests of significance of primary interest.

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