tilastonlukijan

Tilastonlukijan is the genitive singular form of tilastonlukija, a Finnish compound noun meaning "statistician" or "one who reads statistics." Tilastonlukija is formed from tilasto ("statistic") and lukija ("reader"). The genitive tilastonlukijan is used to denote possession or association, as in tilastonlukijan raportti (the statistician's report) or tilastonlukijan työ (the statistician's work).

Grammatically, tilastonlukijan belongs to the class of agent nouns formed with the -ja suffix; the -n ending marks genitive singular. In ordinary text, tilastonlukijan is a possessive form and does not stand alone as a separate concept. The base tilastonlukija is more common when referring to the person, while tilastonlukijan appears when indicating something belonging to or attributed to that person, such as data, interpretations, or statements.

Usage and context: The term is not a standard job title in everyday Finnish; more common terms for a professional statistician are tilastotieteilijä or tilastotutkija. Tilastonlukija, and by extension tilastonlukijan, may occur in academic, journalistic, or fictional writing to describe someone who reads or interprets statistics, or to emphasize the relationship between a person and statistical outputs. Example: "Tilastonlukijan huomio kiinnittyy usein tilastojen epävarmuuteen."

See also:

- tilastonlukija

- tilasto

- lukija

- tilastotiede

- tilastotieteilijä