And there's another in joke among statisticians, and that's, How do you tell the introverted statistician from the extroverted statistician?

Creation of one post of Statistician (P 3)

When they say to you, What do you do? you say, I'm a statistician.

The creation of a post of statistician has also been recommended by the Board of Auditors.

She worked with a statistician named George Kneale, and George was pretty much everything that Alice wasn't.

The statistician would provide technical guidance and advice on statistical development in support of pension benefit analyses.

And it all depends on the ideas of this guy, the Reverend Thomas Bayes, who was a statistician and mathematician in the 18th century.

A request is made to enhance the staffing of the Office of the Chief Executive Officer by one statistician at the P 3 level.

But the track record of charting this recovery has been discouraging. In his book The Signal and the Noise, the American statistician Nate Silver says that forecasters perform worst when faced with a circumstance that they have not encountered before.

Three years later, when asset and liability management needs have become more urgent, the need for a statistician to maintain the quality of the Fund's data, to enhance the collection systems and to produce better and more relevant statistical reports for management appears even more evident.

Statistician Nic Marks asks why we measure a nation's success by its productivity instead of by the happiness and well being of its people. He introduces the Happy Planet Index, which tracks national well being against resource use . Which countries rank highest in the HPI? You might be surprised.

Unfortunately, a government statistician cannot judge the increase in quality of everything from restaurant meals to medical care. So looking only at the cost of a meal or of a day in the hospital causes an overestimate in the price index and an underestimate of the rise in the real standard of living.

One of my favorite shows as a kid was The Six Million Dollar Man, and this is a little bit closer to the 240 dollar man or so, but At at any rate. I would normally feel very self conscious and geeky wearing this around, but a few days ago I saw one world renowned statistician swallowing swords on stage here, so I figure it's OK amongst this group.

The BMI is calculated by dividing a person s body weight in kilograms by the square of his height in meters (kg m2). First named after the Belgian astronomer, mathematician, and statistician Adolphe Quetelet, who demonstrated in 1835 how adult weight normally increases in proportion to height squared, the index provides a measure of body weight, independent of stature, allowing us to compare the weight of short and tall people.