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 ...

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 random winning numbers on lottery tickets aren't exactly random at all. Mohan Srivastava is the man who figured out how to beat a scratch lottery game -- and he didn’t even profit from it.

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 ...

Mark A. Calabria, director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, answers questions during a hearing of the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs on housing regulations during ...

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 ...