statistician vs figurer

statistician and figurer both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
statistician	Yes	No	No	No
figurer	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, figurer is a hypernym of statistician; that is, figurer is a word with a broader meaning than statistician:

statistician: someone versed in the collection and interpretation of numerical data (especially someone who uses statistics to calculate insurance premiums)
figurer: an expert at calculation (or at operating calculating machines)

Other hypernyms of statistician include calculator, computer, estimator, reckoner.

statistician (noun)	figurer (noun)
someone versed in the collection and interpretation of numerical data (especially someone who uses statistics to calculate insurance premiums)	an expert at calculation (or at operating calculating machines)
a mathematician who specializes in statistics