Statistician

A Statistician is a Person from the Statistics Discipline who is knowledgeable in Statistical Theory.

• Context:
  • They can be:
    • an Applied Statistician.
    • a Theoretical Statistician.
• See: Mathematician.

References

• http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=statistician
  • S: (n) statistician, mathematical statistician (a mathematician who specializes in statistics)
  • S: (n) statistician, actuary (someone versed in the collection and interpretation of numerical data (especially someone who uses statistics to calculate insurance premiums))

2006

• (Mitchell, 2006) => Tom M. Mitchell. (2006). "The Discipline of Machine Learning. Machine Learning Department technical report CMU-ML-06-108, Carnegie Mellon University.
  • A Statistician asks: “What can be inferred from data plus a set of modeling assumptions, with what reliability?”