The word "statistician" is correct and usable in written English.
It refers to someone who specializes in the collection, analysis, and interpretation of numerical data. You can use the word "statistician" in any context where you need to refer to someone who is an expert in statistics, such as: - I consulted with a statistician to analyze the survey results. - The statistician presented a detailed report on the trends in the data. - As a statistician, my job is to make sense of the numbers and help organizations make informed decisions.
McLeish, with little money to waste, landed Kris Boyd: to the purist, hardly even a footballer; to the statistician, an outrageously prolific goalscorer.
"There's now little doubt that lifestyle choices can have a big impact on cancer risk, with research from around the world all pointing to the same key risk factors", said Prof Max Parkin, a CRUK statistician based at Queen Mary, University of London.
Last year, Hans Rosling, the popular statistician, hosted a BBC show to explode myths surrounding global population, claiming that the Brits "know less about the world than chimpanzees".
For all that she has spent the past five years on an extended skiing-related career break, Kelly Gallagher is a statistician by trade and training, and the bookmakers' rank outsider on the BBC's Sports Personality of the Year shortlist is fully aware of the likelihood of a visually-impaired athlete triumphing in a popularity contest over the likes of Gareth Bale, Rory McIlroy and Lewis Hamilton.
DCLG's research budget has been cut by 63% since 2008, estimates Ludi Simpson, a statistician at the University of Manchester.
The FAO says it has been suspicious of the Chinese figures for the past six years.Richard Grainger, the FAO's chief statistician, argues that global figures are not important, because fisheries are managed at a regional level.
According to "Queering Statistics", a seminar that took place at the Royal Statistical Society in Britain in 2006, two main difficulties face a statistician trying to work out how many people are gay: what to measure (behaviour, desire or identity) and how to collect information in a way in which people understand and accept.
A decision to make completing the longer version of the census form voluntary annoyed many, including the federal government's chief statistician, who resigned.
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