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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

On Sept. 21, a Wuhan resident “known only as Su died from what a Chinese biostatistician believes may have been COVID-19,” the report said.

From Washington Times May 17, 2023

“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

Many panel members are sports medicine physicians and other medical specialists who treat patients, as opposed to public health experts like epidemiologists and biostatisticians who look at populations.

From Science Magazine Jun. 14, 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

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

The university also plans to embed biostatisticians within clinical research groups to help prevent against inadvertent errors in data analysis.

From Nature May 2, 2012

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