To consult the statistician after an experiment is finished is often merely to ask him to conduct a post mortem examination. He can perhaps say what the experiment died of.


Presidential Address to the First Indian Statistical Congress, 1938. Sankhya 4, 14-17.

Quotation by Ronald Fisher[mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk]

Ronald Fisher Quotes

To consult the statistician after an experiment is finished is often merely to ask him to conduct a post mortem examination. He can perhaps say what...

To consult the statistician after an experiment is finished is often merely to ask him to conduct a post mortem examination. He can perhaps say what...

To consult the statistician after an experiment is finished is often merely to ask him to conduct a post mortem examination. He can perhaps say what...

To consult the statistician after an experiment is finished is often merely to ask him to conduct a post mortem examination. He can perhaps say what...