Question

What are roles and responsibilities of a statistician?

Answer 1

There have the following roles:

• consulting with clients and agreeing what data to collect and how it should be gathered - taking into account any ethical and legislative considerations
• designing experiments, trials or surveys to produce the required data
• collecting and analysing the data
• interpreting the data and making sure that the right decisions are made based on the results
• monitoring data collected throughout its shelf life
• presenting results to others, such as senior managers, regulatory authorities and clients

Answer 2

Typically following are the roles and responsibilities of an Statistician:

• designing data acquisition trials
• assessing results
• analysing trends
• applying statistical methodology to complex data
• acting in a consultancy capacity
• designing and implementing data gathering/management computer systems and software
• supervising junior statistical staff
• using statistics to make forecasts and to provide projected figures
• presenting information in a variety of formats
• conveying complex information to people who may not be specialists
• liaising with colleagues
• attending meetings