Chartered statistician
Encyclopedia
Chartered Statistician is a professional qualification
in statistics
offered by the Royal Statistical Society
in the United Kingdom
. A chartered statistician may use the post-nominal letters CStat.
The qualification requires achievement of an approved academic qualification
(either the Royal Statistical Society
's Graduate Diploma in Statistics or a degree in statistics) together with suitable professional experience, usually of at least five years. Prior to completion of the necessary professional experience, but after completion of an approved qualification, members may use the professional qualification Graduate Statistician, and use the letters GradStat.
Professional certification
Professional certification, trade certification, or professional designation, often called simply certification or qualification, is a designation earned by a person to assure qualification to perform a job or task...
in statistics
Statistics
Statistics is the study of the collection, organization, analysis, and interpretation of data. It deals with all aspects of this, including the planning of data collection in terms of the design of surveys and experiments....
offered by the Royal Statistical Society
Royal Statistical Society
The Royal Statistical Society is a learned society for statistics and a professional body for statisticians in the UK.-History:It was founded in 1834 as the Statistical Society of London , though a perhaps unrelated London Statistical Society was in existence at least as early as 1824...
in the United Kingdom
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
. A chartered statistician may use the post-nominal letters CStat.
The qualification requires achievement of an approved academic qualification
(either the Royal Statistical Society
Royal Statistical Society
The Royal Statistical Society is a learned society for statistics and a professional body for statisticians in the UK.-History:It was founded in 1834 as the Statistical Society of London , though a perhaps unrelated London Statistical Society was in existence at least as early as 1824...
's Graduate Diploma in Statistics or a degree in statistics) together with suitable professional experience, usually of at least five years. Prior to completion of the necessary professional experience, but after completion of an approved qualification, members may use the professional qualification Graduate Statistician, and use the letters GradStat.