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statistician

[stat-i-stish-uhn] / ˌstæt ɪˈstɪʃ ən /




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“It’s the kind of idea that you try for a bit, it doesn’t work, and you think maybe you were just too hopeful,” said Mark Sellke, a Harvard statistician at OpenAI.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 30, 2026

"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

An oversight board will now consider the situation, the spokeswoman added, and the chief statistician will provide an update in due course.

From BBC • Feb. 22, 2026

As statistician Persi Diaconis has shown, six to eight riffle shuffles are usually necessary.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos




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