This new lyric honors the bicentennial of the birth of Florence Nightingale, adapting her quote, “To understand God’s thoughts, we must study statistics, for these are the measure of His purpose.”
Lawrence Mark Lesser
Slip Slidin’ to the Mean
Lawrence Lesser of The University of Texas at El Paso repurposed Paul Simon’s 1977 top-five hit “Slip Slidin’ Away” to teach regression to the mean.
‘Florence’: A Statistics Song
ASA member Lawrence Mark Lesser wrote “’Florence’: A Statistics Song” to honor the approaching bicentennial of the birth of Florence Nightingale.