statistician
pronunciation
How to pronounce statistician in British English:
UK [ˌstætɪˈstɪʃn]
How to pronounce statistician in American English:
US [ˌstætɪˈstɪʃən]
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- Noun:
- a mathematician who specializes in statistics
- someone versed in the collection and interpretation of numerical data (especially someone who uses statistics to calculate insurance premiums)
Word Origin
- statistician (n.)
- 1801, from statistics + -ian.
Example
- 1. Only an economist , or a statistician , could ask that question .
- 2. Until elections in october , a competent-looking caretaker government will run the country , headed by the chief statistician , jan fischer .
- 3. The best-known way of measuring inequality is the gini coefficient , named after an italian statistician called corrado gini .
- 4. In 1906 , the great statistician francis galton observed a competition to guess the weight of an ox at a country fair .
- 5. Statistician herman hollerith used punch cards to tabulate data from the 1890 u.s. census .