"There are a lot of small data problems that occur in big data. They don't disappear because you've got lots of stuff. They get worse." is a quote by British biostatistician David J. Spiegelhalter (1953 - ). The quote may be found in a March 28, 2014 article in the Financial Times written by Tim Hartford entitled "Big data: are we making a big mistake?"
A joke to aid in discussing probability density functions for continuous random variables. The joke was written in 2016 by Judah Lesser an AP statistics student from El Paso, Texas.
A pun to aid in discussing Stirling's approximation. The joke was written by Larry Lesser from The University of Texas at El Paso in January 2018.
A song to help with discussion of the history of William Sealy Gosset's (a.k.a. Student) result about the t-distribution for modeling standardized means. The lyrics were written by Lawrence Mark Lesser from The University of Texas at El Paso in 2017 and may be sung to the tune of Jack Norworth and Albert Von Tizle's 1908 standard "Take Me Out to the Ballgame."
A joke to be used in describing how a marginal density is computed from a joint density. The joke was written in 2017 by Larry Lesser (The University of Texas at El Paso) and Dennis Pearl (Penn State University).
A joke to be used in discussing the issue of regression to the mean. Note that the word "meme" is pronunced like "meem." The joke was written in 2017 by Larry Lesser (The University of Texas at El Paso) and Dennis Pearl (Penn State University).
A song to be used in discussing how the mean and standard deviation work well in describing symmetric distributions while the median and IQR are valuable when you need more resistant measures for skewed distributions. The lyrics were written by Mary McLellan from Aledo High School in Aledo, Texas as one of several dozen songs created for her AP statistics course. The song may be sung to the tune of “Faithfully,” the 1983 ballad by the band Journey. Also, an accompanying video may be found at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8lry78zBWE See also the companion song “Which Measure and Spread to Use” also written by Mary McLellan with the same learning objective.
A song to be used in discussing how the mean and standard deviation work well in describing symmetric distributions while the median and IQR are valuable when you need more resistant measures for skewed distributions. The lyrics were written by Mary McLellan from Aledo High School in Aledo, Texas as one of several dozen songs created for her AP statistics course. The song may be sung to the tune of the 1976 pop song “Dancing Queen,” by ABBA. Also, an accompanying video may be found at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5-wg3OYUIE See also the companion song “Which Measure Should I Choose” also written by Mary McLellan with the same learning objective.
A song that can be used in discussing the standard deviation of p-hat and how to estimate it in making confidence intervals. The lyrics were written by Mary McLellan from Aledo High School in Aledo, Texas as one of several dozen songs created for her AP statistics course. The song may be sung to the tune of the 1972 hit “I Can See Clearly Now,” by Johnny Nash. Also, an accompanying video may be found at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1a2e2O0o0lg
A song that can be used in discussing the meaning and interpretation of Type II error in Significance Testing. The lyrics were written by Mary McLellan from Aledo High School in Aledo, Texas as one of several dozen songs created for her AP statistics course. The song may be sung to the tune of “Barbara Ann,” written by Fred Fassert in 1961 and popularized by the Beach Boys in 1965. Also, an accompanying video may be found at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjLiNJLhHzc