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.
但是在其他领域,美国的统计学家似乎相信他们的统计方法更加优越:确实。历史证明,欧洲统计机构经常不久之后接受他们的方法。
But in other areas American number-crunchers seem to believe that their measures are better; indeed, history shows that European statistical agencies have often later adopted their methods.
爱德华.戴明(1900-1993),耶鲁大学的博士,兼为物理学家、统计学家。美国数学家瓦尔特.休哈特鲜为人知,戴明将其理念应用于业务流程。
W. Edwards Deming (1900-1993) was a physicist/statistician with a PhD from Yale who applied the ideas of a little-known American mathematician, Walter Shewhart, to business processes.
大多数人口统计学家一致认为,到2050年,拉美裔以外的白种人将成为美国全国总人口中的少数。
By 2050, most demographers agree that non-Hispanic white people will be a minority in the overall national population.
美国俄勒冈州立大学的统计学家已做到了这点。
Statisticians at Oregon State University have done just that.
统计学家赫尔曼·霍尔瑞斯用打孔卡把1890年美国人口普查数据制成表格。
Statistician Herman Hollerith used punch cards to tabulate data from the 1890 U.S. census.
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.
但人口统计学家根据美国人口调查局发布的最新数据发现:Jacksonville是美国拥有同性恋人口最多的城市之一。
But as demographers sift through recent data releases from the Census Bureau, they have found that Jacksonville is home to one of the biggest populations of gay parents in the country.
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.
1886年统计学家赫尔曼·霍尔瑞斯,开始从事以出租他原先发明针对对美国人口普查的制表机器的生意。
In 1886 Herman Hollerith, a statistician, started a business to rent out the tabulating machines he had originally invented for America's census.
上个月末,美国官方统计学家修正了他们对2004 - 2006这三年的GDP增长率的估算,平均每年下降了0.3%。
Late last month America's official statisticians cut their estimates of GDP growth by an average of 0.3 percentage points a year for the three years to 2006.
这位美国的统计学家是盖洛普民意测验的首创者。盖洛普民意测验是为了测量民意对其调查样本进行统计的科学方法。
Gallup was an American statistician who invented the Gallup Poll, a successful statistical method of survey sampling for measuring public opinion.
这位美国的统计学家是盖洛普民意测验的首创者。盖洛普民意测验是为了测量民意对其调查样本进行统计的科学方法。
Gallup was an American statistician who invented the Gallup Poll, a successful statistical method of survey sampling for measuring public opinion.
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