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Description: The Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary® definition is: "A branch of mathematics dealing with the collection, analysis, interpretation, and presentation of masses of numerical data."
The steps of statistical analysis involve collecting information, evaluating it, and drawing conclusions. The information might be:
- A test group's favorite amount of sweetness in a blend of fruit juices
- The number of men and women hired by a city government
- The velocity of a burning gas on the sun's surface
| Accountant | Actuarial Statistician | Aircraft Designer |
| Animal Health Statistician | Algorithm Designer | Architect |
| Bank Officer | Bio Statistician | Bookkeeper |
| Business Analyst | Clinical Programmer | Computer Scientist |
| Cost Estimator | Cryptographer/Cryptologist | Data Analyst |
| Data Miner | Database Administrator | Demographer |
| Development Manager | Econometrician | Economist |
| Environmental Scientist | Epidemiological Statistician | Financial Analyst |
| Financial Engineer | Financial Planner |
Financial Statistician |
| Forensic Statistician | Foresting Statistician | Game Designer |
| Geologist | Government Statistician | Health Services Statistician |
| Industrial Engineer | Industrial Statistician | Inventory Analyst |
| Investigator | Investment Banker | Lawyer |
| Market Survey Research | Marketing Information Analyst | Mathematician |
| Measurement Statistician | Media Specialist | Medical Statistician |
| Meteorologist | Operations Research Analyst | Personal Financial Advisor |
| Pharmaceutical Engineer | Pharmaceutical Statistician | Physicist |
| Pilot | Professor | Programmer Analyst |
| Project Manager | Psychologist | Quality Analyst |
| Reliability Engineer | Research Scientist | Researcher |
| Risk Analyst | Science Writer | Scientist |
| Social Scientist | Software Engineer | Statistical Consultant |
| Statistical Methodologist | Statistical Programmer | Survey Methodologist |
| Survey Statistician | Systems Analyst | Systems Engineer |
| Teacher | Telecommunications Engineer | Webmaster |
| Problem Solving | Ability to analyze and interpret data |
| Logical thinking | Evaluating theoretical models |
| Systemizing skills | Organizational skills |
| Critical thinking | Teamwork skills |
| Advanced quantitative skills | Numerical computation |
| Computer literacy | Ability to design experiments |
| Verbal and written communication skills | Advising skills |
American Statistical Association job search site
Department of Statistics at Purdue University
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Careers in Statistics (Virginia Tech)
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Is a Career in Operations Research/Management Science Right for You?
Caucus for Women in Statistics
Careers in Science & Engineering - A Student Planning Guide to Grad School and Beyond
Professional Association Links
American Statistical Association Career Center
Association for Women in Science
International Statistical Institute
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Association for Computing Machinery
Institute of Mathematical Statistics
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