William Sealy Gosset

William Sealy Gosset is an English statistician and brewer who lived from 1876 to 1937. He made significant
contributions to statistics, particularly in the analysis of small sample sizes.
He publishes his research under the pseudonym “Student”. Gosset created the t-test, a method used for
comparing means between groups, and the t-distribution, which enables inferences about population means with
small samples. The t-distribution accounts for the additional uncertainty associated with small samples and is
widely used for hypothesis testing and confidence interval estimation.
His work greatly influenced practical statistics in fields such as quality control and industrial experimentation.
Despite publishing under a pseudonym, Gosset's contributions were recognized, and his methods continue to be
widely employed today.

Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss

Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss, a German mathematician and physicist who
lived from 1777 to 1855, has made many statistical techniques widely used
today.
Gauss developed the method of least squares, a technique for estimating the
parameters of a mathematical model based on observed data. The best-fit line
or curve can be found using this method by minimizing the total of the
squared discrepancies between the observed and anticipated values.
Gauss has also developed the normal distribution, also known as the Gaussian
distribution or bell curve, a fundamental concept in statistics and probability.
This is used to model a wide range of natural phenomena and is characterized
by its symmetrical bell-shaped curve.