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US
/ˌstætəˈstɪʃən/
]
[ UK /stˌætɪstˈɪʃən/ ]
[ UK /stˌætɪstˈɪʃən/ ]
NOUN
- a mathematician who specializes in statistics
- someone versed in the collection and interpretation of numerical data (especially someone who uses statistics to calculate insurance premiums)
How To Use statistician In A Sentence
- Roderick Little, a University of Michigan biostatistician, will become associate director for statistical methodology and standards at the Census Bureau beginning in September. Robert Groves Names Roderick Little, U Of Mich. Statistician, To New Census Post
- His apparent heresy is not that of the smooth talking cleric, but the statistician specialising in the field of criminology.
- So looking at whether something makes people happy is largely futile. In statisticians' terms, you are looking for variance in something that is invariant.
- Sampling techniques were adopted from statisticians working in the fields of biology and botany.
- Free them from the tedious business of filling in forms to record crime and leave it to the statisticians. Times, Sunday Times
- But there's another important breast-cancer statistic that people hear less often, says Donald Berry, a biostatistician at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center: Roughly one in 36 women will die of the disease. Using Stats to Scare Up Support
- The statisticians also say that men are now involved in less physical and safer occupations than their fathers. Times, Sunday Times
- Statisticians say the inflation figures may overstate the speed of price rises.
- Economists—unlike sociologists, anthropologists, statisticians or political scientists—do not formally subscribe to a professional ethical code.
- The investigations are believed to be highly complex and involve experts in toxicology, diabetes and orthopaedics as well as statisticians.