statistician

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

"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

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

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

That narrative betrays a rookie mistake that’s known among statisticians as the “gambler’s fallacy.”

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 17, 2026

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

‘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