statistician
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statistician
A person who works professionally or academically with statistics, that is, with collecting, analyzing, and interpreting data.
Ein Statistiker wurde beauftragt, die Wahlergebnisse zu analysieren.
A statistician was commissioned to analyze the election results.
'Der Statistiker' (the statistician) is derived from 'die Statistik' (statistics). The ending '-iker' often refers to a male person who is an expert in a particular field, as in 'Physiker' (physicist) or 'Informatiker' (computer scientist).
Als Statistiker arbeitet er täglich mit großen Datenmengen.
As a statistician, he works with large amounts of data every day.
Statisticians are often connected with verbs that describe their work. These include: 'Daten erheben/analysieren' (to collect/analyze data), 'Prognosen erstellen' (to make forecasts), and 'Ergebnisse interpretieren' (to interpret results).
Die Statistiker des Instituts erstellen regelmäßig Prognosen zur wirtschaftlichen Entwicklung.
The statisticians at the institute regularly make forecasts about economic development.
A typical construction is 'einen Statistiker beauftragen, etwas zu tun' (to commission a statistician to do something). This is often phrased in the passive: 'Ein Statistiker wurde beauftragt, ...' (A statistician was commissioned to ...).
Das Unternehmen hat einen externen Statistiker beauftragt, die Kundendaten auszuwerten.
The company commissioned an external statistician to evaluate the customer data.
