Take Me Out to the Brew’ry

This year marks the 110th anniversary of the famous Biometrika paper “The Probable Error of a Mean,” by William Gosset, and the Tin Pan Alley classic by Jack Norworth and Albert Von Tilzer, “Take Me Out to the Ball Game,” whose chorus became the unofficial anthem of North American baseball.

The University of Texas at El Paso professor Lawrence Lesser honors both in his latest song.

Take Me Out to the Brew’ry

Lyrics © 2017 Lawrence M. Lesser
May sing to the tune of “Take Me Out to the Ball Game” (Norworth and Von Tilzer)

Take me out to the brew’ry,

biggest one in the world:

Guinness used data to lead the pack—

boost the taste and keep costs on track!

But with few, few samples for testing,

mean’s error was so unexplained:

then came William Gosset’s result

under Student’s name!​