A joke relating the voting preferences of certain states with the shape of a map of the states (i.e. the shape they take if viewed as a histogram). The joke was written in 2019 by Larry Lesser from The University of Texas at El Paso.
A joke relating the voting preferences of certain states with the shape of a map of the states (i.e. the shape they take if viewed as a histogram). The joke was written in 2019 by Larry Lesser from The University of Texas at El Paso.
A poem generally celebrating statistics. The poem was written by Sally Maughan and was chosen as the winner of an online contest seeking a Pi-Ku in the online mathematics education journal Aperiodical in 2020. A "Pi-ku" is like a Haiku except, instead of a 5-7-5 structure, it uses a 3-1-4 structure (the first three digits of π.
A song to be used in discussing the value of visualizations in telling a data story along with the importance of using "clean" data in doing so. The lyrics were written by Dennis K Pearl from Penn State University in July, 2022. May be sung to the tune of "Maxwell's Silver Hammer" written by Paul McCartney and released by the Beatles in 1969.
This limerick was written April 2021 by Larry Lesser of The University of Texas at El Paso to be used as a vehicle for discussing probabilities and expected values involved in playing a typical pari-mutuel lottery. The limerick was also published in the June 2021 issue of AmStat News.
This limerick was written in April 2021 by Larry Lesser of The University of Texas at El Paso to be used as a vehicle for discussing the issues and pitfalls of using .05 as a bright-line threshold for declaring statistical significance, in light of ASA recommendations. The poe was also published in the June 2021 AmStat News.
This limerick was written in April 2021 by Larry Lesser of The University of Texas at El Paso to be used as a vehicle for discussing Simpson's Paradox. The limerick was also published in the June 2021 Amstat News.
A song to aid in the discussion of the meaning and interpretation of p-values and type I errors. The song's lyrics were written in 2017 by Lawrence Lesser from The University of Texas at El Paso and may be sung to the tune of the 1977 Bee Gees Grammy winning hit "Stayin' Alive." The audio recording was produced by Nicolas Acedo with vocals by Erika Araujo, both students in the Commercial Music Program at The University of Texas at El Paso.
A song about regression to the mean written by Dennis K Pearl from Penn State University in February 2022. May be sung to the tune of the Scottish folk song "My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean. The audio recording was produced by Nicolas Acedo with vocals by Alejandra Nunez Vargas, both students in the Commercial Music Program at The University of Texas at El Paso.
A song satirizing the use of fixed significance level hypothesis testing. The song was written by Dennis K Pearl from Penn State University. Lyrics may be sung to the tune of the Beatles 1967 hit "When I'm Sixty-Four." (Paul McCartney wrote the song in 1958). The audio recording was produced by Nicolas Acedo with vocals by Alejandra Nunez Vargas, both students in the Commercial Music Program at The University of Texas at El Paso.
Song celebrates Bayesian inference, includes verbal form of Bayes theorem. The lyrics were written by David Blackwell, University of California at Berkeley. May be sung to the tune of "Who (Stole My Heart Away)?" (Jerome Kern). The audio was produced by Nicolas Acedo with vocals by Abeni Merriweather, both students in the Commercial Music Program at The University of Texas at El Paso.