statistician
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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
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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While September’s dreadful average return has been known for years, statisticians constantly reminded us that, absent a plausible rationale, it’s too risky to bet on a poor September.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 13, 2026
Economists and investors have since worried that bad numbers could bring about the dismissal of statisticians, while good ones could be greeted skeptically by the public.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 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
Speaking of cost, statisticians have suggested that trying to complete the set at retail alone - accounting for duplicates - will burn a £1,300 hole in your pocket.
From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2026
In two transformative decades between 1920 and 1940, the first two of these questions—i.e., variation and evolution—would be solved by unique alliances between geneticists, anatomists, cell biologists, statisticians, and mathematicians.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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