What are the tasks of a mathematical statistician?
The primary role of most of the mathematical statisticians is to provide methodological services for Statistics Canada surveys. This service is oriented to our internal clients and requires mathematical statisticians to acquire some knowledge of the client area in order to determine and meet its methodological needs. To this end, mathematical statisticians are usually grouped into divisions and sections according to the clients served. The mathematical statistician is responsible for providing methodology services. These services are: designing, implementing and evaluating statistical methods, mainly in the following areas: survey frame creation and maintenance, sample design, questionnaire design, data collection methods, edit and imputation of data, treatment of non-response, estimation of parameters of interest and their variances, data analysis, measurement of non-sampling errors, protection of confidentiality, along with quality control/assurance and time series analysis. The work
