statistician
Americannoun
noun
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a person who specializes in or is skilled at statistics
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a person who compiles statistics
Etymology
Origin of statistician
First recorded in 1815–25; statist(ics) + -ician
Example Sentences
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A staff statistician at the meeting claimed the eye drops’ benefits diminished over time, but this was incorrect.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 13, 2026
The limitation around death “really complicates the interpretation of what the market is doing,” says Harry Crane, a Rutgers statistician who sits on the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s Innovation Advisory Committee.
From Barron's • Mar. 2, 2026
Greg Auclair, a statistician at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, told BBC Verify that there has been an uptick in foreign investment in the US over the past year.
From BBC • Feb. 25, 2026
Gelman’s examples include a claim offered in the book “Freakonomics” that “beautiful parents are 36% more likely to have girl babies,” derived from a tortuous calculation by a British statistician.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 19, 2025
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
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