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Bruce Weaver

Posted: Tue Dec 19, 2006 3:44 pm

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I wonder if this was a class project?

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=489221653835413043&pr=goog-sl

I know there is a bit of a tradition writing statistical lyrics for
well-known tunes. I think there's a well-known textbook that has some
statistical lyrics set to a Gilbert & Sullivan tune in the foreword. Can
anyone remember which book it is, or point to the lyrics online?

Here's another one I found a few years ago. It shouldn't be too hard to
work out what the tune is.

Bayesians in the night,
exchanging glances.
Bayesians in the night,
assessing chances.
We'll be sharing risk
before the night is through.

Something about your prior
was so exciting.
Something about your data
was so inviting
When I saw your posterior
I knew I needed you.

From http://renoir.vill.edu/~short/quotes/Bayesians_in_the_Night.html
(no longer active)

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Bruce Weaver
bweaver@lakeheadu.ca
www.angelfire.com/wv/bwhomedir

Bruce Weaver

Posted: Tue Dec 19, 2006 3:50 pm

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Bruce Weaver wrote:

Quote:

Here's another one I found a few years ago. It shouldn't be too hard to
work out what the tune is.

Bayesians in the night,
exchanging glances.
Bayesians in the night,
assessing chances.
We'll be sharing risk
before the night is through.

Something about your prior
was so exciting.
Something about your data
was so inviting
When I saw your posterior
I knew I needed you.

From http://renoir.vill.edu/~short/quotes/Bayesians_in_the_Night.html
(no longer active)

It seems Bayesians are particularly prolific song-writers. This
contains another lengthier version of "Bayesians in the Night":

http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/otherplaces/grstats/grbayes/val8/songbook.pdf

--
Bruce Weaver
bweaver@lakeheadu.ca
www.angelfire.com/wv/bwhomedir

Reef Fish

Posted: Tue Dec 19, 2006 7:14 pm

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Bruce Weaver wrote:

Quote:

Bruce Weaver wrote:

Here's another one I found a few years ago. It shouldn't be too hard to
work out what the tune is.

Not if you're not familiar with the Sixty's Rat Pack!

An Afonso in a sci.math o' statistics,
Who can't tell statistics from statics.
He writes Portuguese rarely
Creates Cacophny in the Group daily,
While writing English and French lyrics.

I can think of any Portuguese tune, but this lyric could go with
"Lady of Spain" if you squeeze a few words between the notes. Smile

Quote:

Lady of Spain I adore you
Bayesians in the night, exchanging glances.

Right from the night I first saw you

Quote:

Bayesians in the night, assessing chances.

My heart has been yearning for you

Quote:

We'll be sharing risk before the night is through.

What else could any heart do?

Quote:

Something about your prior was so exciting.

Ooops that line didn't work: wrong iambic pentameter. Smile

Ned a tune that fits a Sicilian Quatrain.

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It seems Bayesians are particularly prolific song-writers.

That's probably because they have bigger posteriors to base their
literary art than the non-Bayesians.

Limerick #20154 on Bayesians

Though I'm wooing with sweetness and suasion,
My wife takes the path of evasion.
So I know a priori
There'll be no amore.
(The gist of my judgment is Bayesian.)

Le Topique Tropical de Bayes
C'est la supérieur statistical craze
Irreversible jumping
Mon tête est pumping
J'ai un terrible malaise

Loosely translated,

The Tropical Topic of Bayes
It is the super statistical craze
Irreversible jumping
My head is pumping
I have a terrible malaise

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This contains another lengthier version of "Bayesians in the Night":

http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/otherplaces/grstats/grbayes/val8/songbook.pdf
--
Bruce Weaver
bweaver@lakeheadu.ca
www.angelfire.com/wv/bwhomedir

-- Reef Fish Bob.

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