Bootstrap mania
Comments (0) I’ll bootstrap from here to eternity
‘Cause that’s my statistics fraternity
The idea is quite old
But it couldn’t be sold
Until we reached computer modernity
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Ode to a Bayesian
By Peter Flom, April 10, 2010 4:03 pm
A young statistician name Myers
Says tenure is all he desires
But his dreams won’t be met,
He’ll be fired, I bet,
When they catch him adjusting his priors.
Ode to a frequentist
By Peter Flom, April 10, 2010 4:00 pm
A frequentist fellow named Smith
Kept silent (he pleaded the fifth)
When the judge inquired
Re assumptions required
To calculate p-values with
A statistics haiku
By Peter Flom, March 28, 2010 4:19 pm
Signal versus noise
Description and inference
That is statistics
Dissertation Blues
By Peter Flom, January 18, 2010 8:39 am
I’ve designed a great experiment
And collected all my data.
I’ve no idea what it all means
I’ll get to that stuff later.
