... Archives . ... Quote of the Week, June 12, 2007 . ... Terry Speed writes columns for IMS Bulletin and the June 2007 issue has Terence?s Stuff: Data Doctors (p. 7). He quotes Fisher who described a statistician as a post-mortem examiner or a pathologist, but thinks that statisticians (statistical consultants) are doctors who maintain close, active, and alive relationships with their patients. Nonetheless, I think statisticians working with astronomers are assistants to post-mortem examiners. ...