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.

Related terms

• studentized

References

• studentization on Wikipedia.Wikipedia