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New growth drivers played a prominent role in supporting industrial earnings in the January-September period, said Yu Weining, chief statistician at the bureau.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026

The reading indicated "a decline in the non-manufacturing sector's prosperity level" in July, said NBS statistician Huo Lihui in a statement.

From Barron's ● Jul. 31, 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

"Although spending has risen this financial year, this was more than offset by increased receipts," said ONS senior statistician Tom Davis.

From BBC ● Apr. 23, 2026

As statistician Persi Diaconis has shown, six to eight riffle shuffles are usually necessary.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos

The major networks each have their own decision desk where statisticians, political scientists and analysts pore over vote counts, historical trends and polling to determine a winner.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2026

The corporation has released a statement saying "all BBC journalism and editorial decisions are made by BBC journalists and editors, in line with the BBC's editorial guidelines, so the statisticians never make editorial decisions."

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026

They contend that the government statisticians who compile the jobs report haven’t caught up yet with postpandemic shifts in seasonal employment patterns.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 3, 2026

Each of the differences between the numbers in the two rows is significant at the 95% confidence level that statisticians often use when assessing whether a pattern is genuine.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 24, 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