a. Summary. Statistics officers instruct, supervise, and coordinate the analysis and presentation of statistical data.

b. Requirements/Prerequisites

(1) Completion of a postgraduate degree in applied mathematics, mathematics, statistics, or similar curriculum is preferred.

(2) Those Marines not possessing a postgraduate degree in the above curriculums should at a minimum have completed graduate level courses in probability theory, statistical inference, nonparametric statistics, design of experiments, sampling theory, scaling techniques, mathematical modeling, and data analysis.

(3) The Marine should be familiar with at least one statistical software package.

c. Duties

(1) Supervises the activities of personnel compiling statistical data.

(2) Analyzes statistical data germane to Marine Corps activities and prepare data for inclusion in budget estimates.

(3) Serves as a consultant on statistical principles and presents instruction thereon.

d. Related DOT Classification/DOT Code. Statistician, Applied 020.167-026.

Information Derived From MCO P1200.7V Part 1. Current as of Nov 00