statistician
Americannoun
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statisticians
plural
noun
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a person who specializes in or is skilled at statistics
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a person who compiles statistics
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Etymology
Origin of statistician
First recorded in 1815–25; statist(ics) + -ician
Explanation
Numbers, numbers and more numbers. A statistician is a math expert who uses huge amounts of data to figure out how likely it is that something will happen, like your chances of winning the lottery. See the word statistics in statistician? A statistician is an expert in the field of statistics, something you hear or see every day — the percentage of Americans who have cell phones, or how likely you are to be fit and healthy if you live in Oregon are statistics. The people who figure these things out are statisticians.
Vocabulary lists containing statistician
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Matthew Gill, a statistician for Statistics Jersey, said, when looking back at figures going back to 2001, there had not been much a change in real-term earnings.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026
It doesn’t take a statistician to realize that, according to math alone, playing the game is the superior choice.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 24, 2026
"Spending on debt interest, public services, investment and benefits all increased in May 2026, compared with last May," ONS statistician Tom Davies said.
From BBC ● Jun. 19, 2026
A fundamental and powerful concept in probability is Bayes’s theorem, developed by the 18th-century statistician Thomas Bayes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 29, 2026
Let’s examine a preliminary and relevant probability oddity, whose discovery is due to statistician Bradley Efron.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
Cricket statisticians include The Hundred data in T20 records, meaning Buttler now has 14,833 runs in the shortest formats.
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026
Beijing’s statisticians on Wednesday said the gross domestic product grew 4.3% year-on-year in inflation-adjusted terms in the April through June quarter.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 16, 2026
This pattern is significant at the 95% confidence level that statisticians often use when assessing whether a pattern is genuine.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 29, 2026
The correlation coefficient was not significant at the 95% confidence level that statisticians often use when assessing whether a pattern is genuine.
From MarketWatch ● May 15, 2026
‘Moral certainty’ had been the language of theologians; in 1662 we find it being used by the first statisticians, Graunt and Petty.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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