William Sealy Gosset, an English statistician who was also a beer brewer, developed the t-test. He used this test to ensure the consistency and quality of the beer he produced. Gosset published his work under the pseudonym “Student”, which is why the t-test is also known as the Student’s t-test.
There are three types of t-tests: the one-sample t-test, the two-sample t-test, and the paired samples t-test. The one-sample t-test is used to test whether a sample mean is statistically different from a known population mean. The two-sample t-test is used to test whether there is a significant difference between the means of two independent groups. The paired samples t-test is used to compare the means of two related groups.
