Sports statisticians analyze data pertaining to sporting events, usually for major sports such as baseball, football or basketball. Sometimes called a scorer, sports statisticians record data live as ...

The Eisenhower Executive Office Building, home of the Office of Management and Budget. (Getty Images) The Office of Management and Budget reposted a job announcement for the federal chief statistician ...

Do you enjoy working with numbers? Can you look at information and spot patterns? If yes, then a career in statistics is right for you. A statistician collects, analyses, interprets and presents ...

The ranks of U.S. government statisticians have been gutted in the past year due to layoffs and buyouts. That along with diminished funding and attacks on their independence have put at risk the data ...

Karin Orvis last week started her tenure as the new U.S. chief statistician. Orvis will oversee the decentralized Federal Statistical System, ensuring the government has high-quality, actionable data ...

When two golfers play one another and employ the U.S. Golf Association's handicap system -- designed to give players an equal chance of winning despite different skill levels -- the better golfer ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The job of the UK’s national statistician is unmanageable and needs to be split to overcome the crisis in the ...

As he was brushing his teeth on the morning of July 17, 2014, Thomas Royen, a little-known retired German statistician, suddenly lit upon the proof of a famous conjecture at the intersection of ...