How to Use statistician in a Sentence

statistician

noun
  • Those statisticians are still in place.
    — Phillip Molnar, Mercury News, 14 Aug. 2025
  • Many statisticians say that the jury should never have seen it.
    — The Week Uk, theweek, 28 July 2024
  • For once, statisticians are the in-group, and longtime fans are the outsiders.
    — Camilo Fonseca, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Nov. 2023
  • Journalists, statisticians, researchers, and more rushed to find films that did and did not pass the test.
    — refinery29.com, 13 June 2018
  • Later, Moult learned that statisticians had been keenly aware of this kind of error for decades.
    — Quanta Magazine, 26 June 2024
  • So Healey will be without both his normal spotter and statistician.
    — Michelle Gardner, The Arizona Republic, 6 Nov. 2020
  • Stokas remained Marist's statistician the next two years on the varsity.
    — Pat Disabato, Daily Southtown, 13 Mar. 2018
  • Statisticians say that’s to be expected, with the hope that the average balances will go up in time.
    — Chuck Jaffe, The Seattle Times, 17 June 2017
  • Rosling, a Swedish statistician and academic who died last year, wrote the book with his son and daughter-in-law.
    — Natasha Bach, Fortune, 6 June 2018
  • But in 2025, Benefield doesn’t want even to give the statisticians room to talk.
    — Shaun Goodwin, Idaho Statesman, 7 Aug. 2025
  • The truth in the fable Mr Carey’s story ends badly for the statisticians.
    — The Economist, 7 July 2018
  • Single mom and statistician Jessica Davis is about to find out.
    — Washington Post, 10 June 2021
  • The large number of throws allows statisticians to conclude that the nearly 1 percent bias isn't a fluke.
    — Shi En Kim, Scientific American, 14 Dec. 2023
  • The model the team used is the same one that statisticians use to predict and prevent the spread of infectious diseases such as measles.
    — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 31 Oct. 2019
  • The official statistician gave the full sack to Wake instead of giving each player a half-sack.
    — Chris Perkins, Sun-Sentinel.com, 23 Dec. 2017
  • Jeff Sagarin is a sports statistician whose claim to fame is developing a method for ranking and rating sports teams.
    — Josh Newman, The Salt Lake Tribune, 6 Oct. 2022
  • While their parents worked as a school administrator and a statistician, all four of the Byrnes kids work in the arts.
    — Jackie Tempera, PEOPLE, 4 Dec. 2025
  • However, today, nearly all the statisticians and data experts who help get that money to schools could be out of a job.
    — Brittney Melton, NPR, 21 Mar. 2025
  • New York — The nation’s top economic statistician was fired.
    — Matt Egan, CNN Money, 22 Sep. 2025
  • The press is among them, so are judges, scientists, scholars, government, statisticians, and many others.
    — Cate Charron, IndyStar, 28 Feb. 2026
  • Taylor Swift has become such a mainstay at Chiefs games that the statisticians have gotten involved.
    — Alejandra Gularte, Vulture, 14 Aug. 2025
  • The theorem also gives statisticians the power to tell when something fishy is happening.
    — Joseph Howlett, Quanta Magazine, 16 Mar. 2026
  • An experienced statistician who took a redundancy package cannot be switched back on.
    — Dara-Abasi Ita, Forbes.com, 13 June 2026
  • There’s this concept basketball statisticians throw around, variance.
    — Tony Jones, New York Times, 5 May 2026
  • The wisdom of the gambling crowds is the gold standard of forecasting in sports, since punters can price in factors that statisticians overlook.
    — The Economist, 23 Nov. 2019
  • But some players won so frequently in recent years that luck alone can’t explain their good fortune, lottery watchdogs and statisticians said.
    — Jack Jankowski, The Orlando Sentinel, 9 May 2026
  • Per statistician Kelly Dickey, that tied its lowest first-half total over the past 85 years.
    — The Courier-Journal, 27 Jan. 2024
  • As noted by track and field statistician Jon Mulkeen, none of the five men ahead of him ever ran as fast at Norman's age.
    — Chris Chavez, SI.com, 8 June 2018
  • He will be replaced by Kyle McRae, who has spent 30 years as a Warriors statistician.
    — Scott Cacciola, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2021
  • That adjustment depends not only on how statisticians account for price changes, but also for changes in the quality of goods and services.
    — James Broughel, Forbes.com, 6 June 2026

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