statistician
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In September, Beijing’s Tsinghua University poached Su Fei, one of Intel’s leading chip architects, and Liu Jun, a prominent statistician and data scientist at Harvard University.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 19, 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
NBS statistician Huo Lihui hailed "an overall improvement in the country's economic activity", according to a statement offering official interpretations of the data.
From Barron's • Dec. 31, 2025
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
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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