我面试的孩子们说他们的学校如何为他们的科学项目数据安排一个统计学家来分析。
I interview kids who describe how their schools provide a statistician to analyze their science project data.
赫尔曼·霍尔瑞斯(Herman Hollerith)是一个统计学家，他曾帮助美国人口统计局编排数据。
Herman Hollerith was a statistician who helped the U.S. Census tabulate data.
北卡罗来纳州杜克大学人口统计学家肯尼斯·曼顿说：“这确实引发了一个问题，即什么是正常的老龄化。”
"It really raises the question of what should be considered normal ageing," says Kenneth Manton, a demographer from Duke University in North Carolina.
根据美国已经了解的情况，统计局的专家和其他人口统计学家在他们的视野中提供了一个不可抗拒的水晶球。
Working from what America already knows about itself, the bureau's experts and other demographers offer an irresistible, if clouded, crystal ball among their visions.
一个问题被统计学家称作选择偏见。
尽管这个方法不能准确评估个体，但却有助于一个政客从投资者或统计学家手册那里得到更多的一些启示。
For assessing individuals, though, such methods are extremely dubious. A politician minded to use them may do better to take a leaf from the investor 's-or the statistician 's-rulebook.
因为统计学家缺乏一个直接衡量房屋拥有者的住房成本的手段，只能以房租为基础进行估算。
Since the statisticians lack a direct measure of housing costs for homeowners, they impute a cost based on rents.
例如，近些年统计学家如何判定一个人失业就已经成为了很多争论的根源。
For instance, in recent years, how statisticians determine who is unemployed has been the root of much debate.
否则，统计学家表示只有进行严格的临床试验，对比一个控制组、一个测试组以及一个变量，才能真正证明因果关系。
Otherwise, statisticians say only strict clinical trials with a control group and a test group and one variable can truly prove a cause-and-effect association.
对我来说，这是一个完全错误的途径,但实际做法就是这样,因为这正是统计学家擅长的事。
To me, that's a fundamentally wrong approach and it's actually done because it's the sort of thing that statisticians are good at.
还有一个家伙叫巴瑞，澳洲人统计学家，是一部挺有趣的百科全书。
And there's another fellow - Parry - an Australian, a statistician and a sporting encyclopaedia.
确实，当国际货币基金组织和世界经合组织的统计学家制作国与国之间的比较数据基于一个标准化定义。
True, when the statisticians at the IMF or the OECD produce comparative data, they do so on the basis of standardised definitions.
挪威人口统计学家亨利克•厄达尔认为，一个国家的年轻人口每增长一个百分点，其发生冲突风险的几率就会提高4个百分点。
A Norwegian demographer, Henrik Urdal, reckons a country's risk of conflict rises four percentage points for every one-point increase in the youth population.
美国一位人口统计学家曾说，从目前美国的人口走势来看，这第三亿个人可能会是一个拉丁裔男婴。
One demographer has said the 300 millionth person would likely be a Latino boy given current U.S. population trends.
中国的统计学家会把2010年作为一个黄金年进行庆祝：此时，过去的二十年统计回报将到达到达顶峰。
Demographers in China will celebrate 2010 as a golden year: the moment when the "demographic dividend" of the past couple of decades will reach its peak.
英国统计学家要求另一个智囊团——国家经济与社会研究机构算出英国的数据总和。
British statisticians have asked the National Institute of Economic and Social Research, another think-tank, to do the sums for Britain.
布鲁斯金学会人口统计学家威廉，弗利表示，当前的经济不景气可能真的已经给这些收入中值水平一个提升。
Brookings Institute demographer William Frey notes that the current economic downturn may have actually given these median income levels a boost.
布鲁斯金学会人口统计学家威廉，弗利表示，当前的经济不景气可能真的已经给这些收入中值水平一个提升。
Brookings Institute demographer William Frey notes that the current economic downturn may have actually given these median income levels a boost.
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