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biostatistician

American  
[bahy-oh-stat-i-stish-uhn] / ˌbaɪ oʊˌstæt ɪˈstɪʃ ən /

noun

  • biostatisticians
    plural
  1. a person who specializes in biostatistics.


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Alexandra Parfitt, 46, a biostatistician, was disappointed to discover her 9-year-old daughter had copied and pasted an internet description of a “Peanuts” cartoon character into a school presentation on Google Slides.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 21, 2026

There’s a mix of “justified optimism and caution” around AI when it comes to healthcare professionals, said Diana Miglioretti, a biostatistician at the University of California, Davis.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 11, 2025

“I just want people to have tempered expectations,” says Natalie Dean, a biostatistician at Emory University who specializes in evaluating vaccines.

From Science Magazine ● Sep. 8, 2023

“The drug is not harmful - it seems like it has a benefit - there’s no safety signal here,” said Dean Follmann, a biostatistician with the National Institutes of Health.

From Washington Times ● Sep. 7, 2022

“Even though masks work, getting millions of people to wear them, and wear them consistently and properly, is a far greater challenge,” Steven Salzberg, a biostatistician at Johns Hopkins University, has written.

From New York Times ● May 31, 2022

Science spoke with clinicians, vaccine researchers, and biostatisticians about how they view the value of these latest shots.

From Science Magazine ● Sep. 8, 2023

A month later, they organized an international group of epidemiologists, virologists and biostatisticians to track and sequence COVID-19 variants.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 17, 2021

At best, they are a tool to help officials prepare for a potentially prolonged public health crisis, biostatisticians and infectious disease experts told the Guardian.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 15, 2020

It also requires input from lawyers, bioethicists and biostatisticians.

From Nature ● Sep. 24, 2019

The most disputed piece in this medical puzzle is a relatively obscure study released in May by Brazilian and European biostatisticians.

From New York Times ● Jul. 2, 2016

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