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How to use statistician in a sentence

15 example sentences · noun

Statistician means a person who compiles, interprets, or studies statistics. Example: “Statisticians often define a recession as negative real GDP growth during two consecutive quarters.”

Examples of statistician by meaning

nounA person who compiles, interprets, or studies statistics.

  • If the F.R. ever expands its administration to include a statistician, his figure for net foot-pounds of elbow grease per trailing ton-mile are going to look quite impressive.1958 July, R. K. Kirkland, “Into the Mountains on the Festiniog Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 450

More sentences with statistician

  • Statisticians often define a recession as negative real GDP growth during two consecutive quarters.From the entry recession
  • Statisticians sometimes refer to false negative results as Type II errors.2003, Dov Stekel, “Experimental Design”, in Microarray Bioinformatics, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 222. From the entry false negative
  • They are unthinkable and only to be approached by the statistician and the poet.1908–1910 (date written; published 1910 October 18), E[dward] M[organ] Forster, “Leonard and Jacky”, in Howards End, 1st American edition…. From the entry gentlefolk
  • Statisticians often call this "chi by eye."2011, Steven P. Greiner, Ben Graham Was a Quant : Raising the IQ of the Intelligent Investor, page 16. From the entry chi-by-eye
  • Nowadays, statisticians prefer statistical software packages or graphing calculators, rather than random-number tables, to obtain simple random samples.2008, Neil A. Weiss, “[The Nature of Statistics] Simple Random Sampling”, in Introductory Statistics (A Custom Edition for Rio Salado…. From the entry random-number generator
  • By freeing statisticians from dealing with complicated calculations, the statistical aspects of a problem can become the main focus.1992, Casella and George, Explaining the Gibbs Sampler, in: The American Statistician 46(3) 167–174. From the entry wonderfully
  • The objective, however, is not to help budding statisticians to statisticize but to help experimental scientists to experiment properly.1971 April 30, “Research by Experiment”, in Nature, volume 230, number 5296, →DOI, page 602. From the entry statisticize
  • The phrase National Statistics, in capitals, is a warranty that the statistics in question are produced by neutral statisticians and are immune from political interference.2013, Iain McLean, Jim Gallagher, Guy Lodge, Scotland's Choices: The Referendum and What Happens Afterwards, 2nd edition, published 2014…. From the entry warranty
  • The quasi statistician would doubtlessly not know how to check this supposition, thus rendering the interpretation of the mean profit as floccinaucinihilipilification.2011, Bruce Ratner, Statistical and Machine-Learning Data Mining. From the entry floccinaucinihilipilification
  • The message is a discrete or continuous sequence of measurable events distributed in time—presicely what is called a time series by the statisticians.1948, Norbert Wiener, Cybernetics; or, Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine, 2nd edition, MIT Press, →ISBN, pages 8–9. From the entry time series
  • Everyone guesses: estimating is how people with a trade guess; educated guesses are what professional people do; hopeless stabs in the dark are what statisticians do.2005 August 6, Guy Browning, “How to … guess”, in The Guardian. From the entry educated guess
  • In recent years, it had become the hallmark of the scientist, much as the stethoscope was that of the physician and the microcomputer that of the statistician.1956 July 7, Isaac Asimov, Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, volume 11, New York: Fantasy House, page 9. From the entry microcomputer
  • Statisticians say counting noses isn’t the best way to come up with the right number--at least not for a population as large and varied as that of the United States.1998 August 30, K. C. Cole, “Exactly Right”, in Los Angeles Times, archived from the original on 03 Jan 2023. From the entry count noses
  • A great statistician named George Box once said, “You know, there are things like Mom and apple pie and the flag, and then there are things that people argue about.1991, Lee Cheaney, Maury Cotter, “Quality—The Key Elements”, in Real People, Real Work: Parables on Leadership in the 90’s, Knoxville…. From the entry mom and apple pie

Meaning of statistician

  1. noun A person who compiles, interprets, or studies statistics.
  2. noun A mathematician with a specialty of statistics.

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Questions about statistician in a sentence

How do you use statistician in a sentence?
Statistician is used as a noun. For example: “Statisticians often define a recession as negative real GDP growth during two consecutive quarters.”
What is a short sentence with statistician?
“Statisticians often call this "chi by eye."”
What does statistician mean?
Statistician means a person who compiles, interprets, or studies statistics.

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