Statistician
noun
A person who works with or is skilled in statistics.
The statistician analyzed the data from the survey.

Often appears as...
- chief statistician
- qualified statistician
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Academic
noun
A person who collects and interprets numerical data, especially for a government or business.
The government statistician released the latest unemployment figures yesterday.

Often appears as...
- government statistician
- corporate statistician
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Formal
Technical
noun
A person who works with or is skilled in statistics.
The statistician analyzed the data from the survey.

Often appears as...
- chief statistician
- qualified statistician
Usage tips
Academic
noun
A person who collects and interprets numerical data, especially for a government or business.
The government statistician released the latest unemployment figures yesterday.

Often appears as...
- government statistician
- corporate statistician
Usage tips
Formal
Technical
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Work Environment
Statisticians are often found in academic or research settings, implying expertise in analysis.

Our statistician contributed critical insights to the academic paper.
Skill Emphasis
The word emphasizes their skillfulness in handling statistics over just performing routine tasks.

A skilled statistician can make sense of seemingly random data.
Job Role
While 'statistician' implies working with numbers, they also make predictions and inform decisions.

The statistician's forecast helped the company anticipate market trends.
Work Environment
Statisticians are often found in academic or research settings, implying expertise in analysis.

Our statistician contributed critical insights to the academic paper.
Skill Emphasis
The word emphasizes their skillfulness in handling statistics over just performing routine tasks.

A skilled statistician can make sense of seemingly random data.
Job Role
While 'statistician' implies working with numbers, they also make predictions and inform decisions.

The statistician's forecast helped the company anticipate market trends.
Work Environment
Statisticians are often found in academic or research settings, implying expertise in analysis.

Our statistician contributed critical insights to the academic paper.
Skill Emphasis
The word emphasizes their skillfulness in handling statistics over just performing routine tasks.

A skilled statistician can make sense of seemingly random data.
Job Role
While 'statistician' implies working with numbers, they also make predictions and inform decisions.

The statistician's forecast helped the company anticipate market trends.
Video examples
Why you should love...
between what people perceive and the reality, the fact that people are actually pretty poor intuitive statisticians. And there are many reasons for this. Individual experiences, certainly, can influence our perceptions, but so, too, can things like the media reporting things by exception, rather than what's normal.
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The best stats you've...
them into the graphic formats where you can instantly understand them now the statisticians doesn't like it because they say that this will not this will not show the the reality we have to have statistical analytical methods but this is hypothesis-generating I end now with a world where the
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Hans Rosling: Debunking...
to get them into the graphic formats, where you can instantly understand them. Now, statisticians don't like it, because they say that this will not show the reality; we have to have statistical, analytical methods. But this is hypothesis-generating. I end now with the world.
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Peter Donnelly: How...
than all the speakers before me and all the ones coming after me. One of my senior colleagues told me, when I was a youngster in this profession, rather proudly, that statisticians were people who liked figures but didn't have the personality skills to become accountants.
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My failed mission to...
feels especially important for us all to hear, especially now, when so many of the world's problems seem to be because we keep focusing on the things that make us different, not on what binds us together. And look -- I am the first to admit that I am not a statistician,
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Who occupies US prisons?...
other cities counties and states and what we've done with a lot of smart data scientists fabulous researchers and really brilliant statisticians is we've built a risk assessment tool that every judge in the United States can use and they can use this very simple tool to
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Nizar Ibrahim: Lost...
It still feels surreal to this day, and it was amazing. We found our needle in the Sahara. I'm glad I'm not a statistician and thinking about the odds that were stacked against us. You know, I just thought we'll try. So we found the site.
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E.O. Wilson: Advice to...
in mathematics and statistics than it is for mathematicians and statisticians to find scientists able to make use of their equations. It is important in choosing the direction to take in science
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Nic Marks: The Happy...
he would be asking statisticians such as myself to go out and find out what makes life worthwhile. He'd be asking us to redesign our national accounting system to be based upon
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An introduction to...
What is proof? And why is it so important in mathematics? Proofs provide a solid foundation for mathematicians logicians, statisticians, economists, architects, engineers,
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Why you should love...
between what people perceive and the reality, the fact that people are actually pretty poor intuitive statisticians. And there are many reasons for this. Individual experiences, certainly, can influence our perceptions, but so, too, can things like the media reporting things by exception, rather than what's normal.
Video examples
The best stats you've...
them into the graphic formats where you can instantly understand them now the statisticians doesn't like it because they say that this will not this will not show the the reality we have to have statistical analytical methods but this is hypothesis-generating I end now with a world where the
Video examples
Hans Rosling: Debunking...
to get them into the graphic formats, where you can instantly understand them. Now, statisticians don't like it, because they say that this will not show the reality; we have to have statistical, analytical methods. But this is hypothesis-generating. I end now with the world.
Video examples
Peter Donnelly: How...
than all the speakers before me and all the ones coming after me. One of my senior colleagues told me, when I was a youngster in this profession, rather proudly, that statisticians were people who liked figures but didn't have the personality skills to become accountants.
Video examples
My failed mission to...
feels especially important for us all to hear, especially now, when so many of the world's problems seem to be because we keep focusing on the things that make us different, not on what binds us together. And look -- I am the first to admit that I am not a statistician,
Video examples
Who occupies US prisons?...
other cities counties and states and what we've done with a lot of smart data scientists fabulous researchers and really brilliant statisticians is we've built a risk assessment tool that every judge in the United States can use and they can use this very simple tool to
Video examples
Nizar Ibrahim: Lost...
It still feels surreal to this day, and it was amazing. We found our needle in the Sahara. I'm glad I'm not a statistician and thinking about the odds that were stacked against us. You know, I just thought we'll try. So we found the site.
Video examples
E.O. Wilson: Advice to...
in mathematics and statistics than it is for mathematicians and statisticians to find scientists able to make use of their equations. It is important in choosing the direction to take in science
Video examples
Nic Marks: The Happy...
he would be asking statisticians such as myself to go out and find out what makes life worthwhile. He'd be asking us to redesign our national accounting system to be based upon
Video examples
An introduction to...
What is proof? And why is it so important in mathematics? Proofs provide a solid foundation for mathematicians logicians, statisticians, economists, architects, engineers,
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George Brett
American Athlete
Every time I sit with our general manager at a baseball game, and there's number-cruncher and statistician guy - I'm sitting around - they start talking about stuff, and I say, 'What's that? I've never heard of that one before.

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Anna Quindlen
American Journalist
If I get the forty additional years statisticians say are likely coming to me, I could fit in at least one, maybe two new lifetimes. Sad that only one of those lifetimes can include being the mother of young children.

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Terence Tao
Australian Mathematician
Most students who take math classes aren't going to be mathematicians. They're going to be engineers, statisticians - in many ways, that's the more important mission of math education.

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Ronald Fisher
English Mathematician
To call in the statistician after the experiment is done may be no more than asking him to perform a post-mortem examination: he may be able to say what the experiment died of.

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Steven Pinker
Canadian Scientist
Statisticians tell us that people underestimate the sheer number of coincidences that are bound to happen in a world governed by chance.

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Evan Esar
American Writer
Definition of a Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits than under analysis some of them won't stand up either.

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E. M. Forster
English Novelist
We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet.

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Tom Rath
American Author
The reality is that a person who has always struggled with numbers is unlikely to be a great accountant or statistician.

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Anthony Goldbloom
American Businessman
Our view is that the very best data miners or statisticians can earn as much as the very best golfers or tennis players.

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Rob Lowe
American Actor
Sampling, statisticians have told us, is a much more effective way of getting a good census.

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George Brett
American Athlete
Every time I sit with our general manager at a baseball game, and there's number-cruncher and statistician guy - I'm sitting around - they start talking about stuff, and I say, 'What's that? I've never heard of that one before.

Quote examples
Anna Quindlen
American Journalist
If I get the forty additional years statisticians say are likely coming to me, I could fit in at least one, maybe two new lifetimes. Sad that only one of those lifetimes can include being the mother of young children.

Quote examples
Terence Tao
Australian Mathematician
Most students who take math classes aren't going to be mathematicians. They're going to be engineers, statisticians - in many ways, that's the more important mission of math education.

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Ronald Fisher
English Mathematician
To call in the statistician after the experiment is done may be no more than asking him to perform a post-mortem examination: he may be able to say what the experiment died of.

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Steven Pinker
Canadian Scientist
Statisticians tell us that people underestimate the sheer number of coincidences that are bound to happen in a world governed by chance.

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Evan Esar
American Writer
Definition of a Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits than under analysis some of them won't stand up either.

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E. M. Forster
English Novelist
We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet.

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Tom Rath
American Author
The reality is that a person who has always struggled with numbers is unlikely to be a great accountant or statistician.

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Anthony Goldbloom
American Businessman
Our view is that the very best data miners or statisticians can earn as much as the very best golfers or tennis players.

Quote examples
Rob Lowe
American Actor
Sampling, statisticians have told us, is a much more effective way of getting a good census.

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