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The lyrics for “The Statistician’s Song” were written by Paul Velleman from Cornell University as a parody of Tom Lehrer’s 1974 “The Professor’s Song” published in American Mathematical Monthly and sung to the tune of “If You Give Me Your Attention,” from the play Princes Ida by Gilbert and Sullivan. The song won third place in the Song/Video category of the 2021 A-mu-sing Contest. The song facilitates discussion of the characteristics of good teaching in statistics (e.g. stressing real world applications and gaining insights from evidence over focusing on esoteric theory and memorization of formulas).

The lyrics for this song were written and the music was created and performed in 2021by undergraduate student Jonathan F. Spencer from Miami University in Ohio. The song took second place in the song/video category of the 2021 A-mu-sing Contest.  The lyric is designed to stimulate discussion of testing in an unusual situation with a “research question” creating a point alternative, the singers’ “best fit lover,” being compared with a null of “someone else.”

The CI Hammer video is part of a series of musical summary reviews of different statistical and data science topics by Professor Rafael de Andrade Moral from Maynooth University in Ireland, including a set of three that won the grand prize in the 2021 A-mu-sing Contest.

The lyrics reviewing Confidence Intervals and associated learning objectives were written and the video was produced and performed by Dr. Moral, while the music may be sung to the tune of Ghost's 2016 hit “Square Hammer.”

The Tidyverse Song video is part of a series of musical summary reviews of different statistical and data science topics by Professor Rafael de Andrade Moral from Maynooth University in Ireland, including a set of three that won the grand prize in the 2021 A-mu-sing Contest.

The lyrics reviewing the use of R Tidyverse data processing packages and associated learning objectives were written and the video was produced and performed by Dr. Moral, while the music may be sung to the tune of Coldplay's 2011 hit “Paradise.”

The Probability Song video is part of a series of musical summary reviews of different statistical and data science topics by Professor Rafael de Andrade Moral from Maynooth University in Ireland, including a set of three that won the grand prize in the 2021 A-mu-sing Contest.

The lyrics reviewing probability oriented learning objectives were written and the video was produced and performed by Dr. Moral, while the music may be sung to the tune of Billie Eilish's 2019 hit “Bad Guy.”

The script and performances in this video were by students Emelie Andersson and Seongyun (Harry) Lee from the University of Toronto and took an honorable mention in the Song/Video category of the 2019 A-mu-sing Contest.  The video is designed to facilitate discussion of the strength of evidence in observational studies.

The lyrics and the direction for this video were by high school student Jordyn Gross with acting by the students in Mr. Schlaegel's 2018 AP Statistics course at Burlington Township High School.  The video uses the music from Taylor Swift's 2012 hit song by the same name.  The video earned fifth place in the song/video category of the 2019 A-mu-sing Contest and is designed to discuss the meaning of Type I and Type II errors in hypothesis testing situations.

This music video describing the meaning/interpretation of an influential point in a regression analysis was created by Mary McLellan, a teacher at Aledo High School in Texas, who wrote the lyric and performed and produced the video. The song is sung to the tune of the 1978 song “You’re the one that I want” from the movie Grease. The song was part of a pair of songs that took third place in the 2019 A-mu-sing Contest.

This music video describing the problem with extrapolating beyond the range of the data in making predictions was created by Mary McLellan, a teacher at Aledo High School in Texas, who wrote the lyric and performed and produced the video. The song is sung to the tune of the 1984 Bruce Springsteen hit “Born in the U.S.A.” The song was part of a pair of songs that took third place in the 2019 A-mu-sing Contest.

The lyrics and music for this rap were written by Parker Kain, an undergraduate  student at Northern Kentucky University, that took second place in the Song/Video category of the 2019 A-mu-sing contest (Parker Kain also performed the song at the banquet of the 2019 USCOTS).  The song facilitates discussion of the different components of a confidence interval (estimate, margin of error, and confidence multiplier) and interpreting the interval properly and in the context of the real world problem under study.