Hi guys,

I know that this is going to sound like a very basic question but what does the t stand for in t-distribution.

I know that  the t distributions were discovered by William S. Gosset in 1908 and that he was a statistician employed by the Guinness brewing company which had stipulated that he would not publish under his own name. He therefore wrote under the pen name ``Student.''

But what does the t stand for?

Many thanks

Nina