statistician

Chief statistician Ian Cope said it provided a "vital insight" into the lives of children and young people on the island.

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026

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

As early as 1662, the physician and statistician William Petty asserted a cycle of “dearths and plenties” every seven years.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 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

In the weeks and months after Letby was convicted, questions about the case arose in the form of online conspiracy theories and discourse from serious academics, including medical experts and statisticians.

From BBC ● Sep. 15, 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

Yet none of the differences shown in the chart are significant at the 95% confidence level that statisticians often use when assessing whether a pattern is genuine.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 12, 2026

Of course, statisticians would scoff at using one past episode to try to make a prediction about oil prices 36 years later.

From MarketWatch ● May 11, 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