statistician

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"Although spending has risen this financial year, this was more than offset by increased receipts," said ONS senior statistician Tom Davis.

From BBC • Apr. 23, 2026

A fundamental and powerful concept in probability is Bayes’s theorem, developed by the 18th-century statistician Thomas Bayes.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 29, 2026

The limitation around death “really complicates the interpretation of what the market is doing,” says Harry Crane, a Rutgers statistician who sits on the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s Innovation Advisory Committee.

From Barron's • Mar. 2, 2026

Gelman’s examples include a claim offered in the book “Freakonomics” that “beautiful parents are 36% more likely to have girl babies,” derived from a tortuous calculation by a British statistician.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 19, 2025

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