statistician
noun
stat·is·ti·cian
ˌsta-tə-ˈsti-shən 
: one versed in or engaged in compiling statistics
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The firing of a high-level labor statistician after the release of adverse economic data raised alarms about the politicization of nonpartisan agencies and reliability of official U.S. economic statistics.
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Peter Aitken, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Aug. 2025
President Donald Trump’s firing of the chief labor statistician was criticized by her predecessor, who called it an unfounded move that will undermine confidence in a key data set on the US economy.
—Maria Paula Mijares Torres, Fortune, 3 Aug. 2025
Mendel Singer, a statistician at Case Western University School of Medicine, was very unimpressed with Tesla's approach to crash data statistics in his testimony.
—Jonathan M. Gitlin, ArsTechnica, 18 July 2025
Don’t get overly distracted, however; that’s the statistician’s world.
—Julia Dhar, Forbes.com, 16 July 2025
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Peter Aitken, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Aug. 2025
President Donald Trump’s firing of the chief labor statistician was criticized by her predecessor, who called it an unfounded move that will undermine confidence in a key data set on the US economy.
—Maria Paula Mijares Torres, Fortune, 3 Aug. 2025
Mendel Singer, a statistician at Case Western University School of Medicine, was very unimpressed with Tesla's approach to crash data statistics in his testimony.
—Jonathan M. Gitlin, ArsTechnica, 18 July 2025
Don’t get overly distracted, however; that’s the statistician’s world.
—Julia Dhar, Forbes.com, 16 July 2025
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statistician
noun
stat·is·ti·cian
ˌstat-ə-ˈstish-ən
: a person who specializes in statistics
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