Smells Like Stat Spirit

The signature 90s hit (“Smells Like Teen Spirit”) of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Nirvana (from the city of last month’s JSM) inspired UT-El Paso’s Lawrence Lesser to playfully depict some impressions of our subject.

Smells Like Stat Spirit
Lyric © 2015 Lawrence M. Lesser, reprinted with permission

Those anecdotes of all your friends
Will make you lose if you depend:
You cannot be so self-assured
With an alpha of one-third!

CHORUS:
Hello hello hello how low
Hello hello hello how low
Hello hello hello how low
Hello hello hello.
Without data, it’s more dangerous:
I would be an ignoramus!
See the skewness, correlate this!
I need data to explain this:
A priori, it’s Pareto,
Bonferroni, a placebo, yeah! Hey!

With data, I do a test:
p-value found, p-value blessed.
A little group the sample’s been:
I always want a bigger n.

(Repeat Chorus, up to last 2 lines)

Simulation, variation, estimation, imputation,
A new trial, a new trial, a new trial, a new trial,
A new trial, a new trial, a new trial, a new trial,
A new trial.