A new report reveals that the U.S. government's statistical system is struggling due to staff layoffs, reduced funding, and ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Karin Orvis last week started her tenure as the new U.S. chief statistician. Orvis will oversee the decentralized Federal Statistical System, ensuring the government has high-quality, actionable data ...

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 ...

Mabel Ramos's favorite song is "Ghostbusters" by Ray Parker Junior. From morning until night, if Mabel is awake, she is listening and dancing to—or asking to listen to—the number one Billboard hit ...