Antedating of "Statistician"

[Fred Shapiro]

statistician (OED 1825)

1821 _New Monthly Mag. & Literary Jrnl., Amer. Edition_ Jan. 97 (American
Periodical Series)  What we want statisticians to account for, is, why
similar circumstances should produce such opposite results?

Fred Shapiro


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