ABC of statistics

     Songwriter Larry Lesser is a co-organizer (with Gizem Karaali) of a poetry-with-mathematics reading at the Joint Mathematics Meetings in San Antonio next January.  And sometimes Lesser writes poetry.  He has told me that his poem below was in response to an abecedarian poem in a 2006 paper of mine, "Mathematics of Poetry" published in the online journal JOMA -- and available here.

Statistic Acrostic   by Lawrence Mark Lesser and Dennis K. Pearl

     A
     Better
     Confidence:
     Data.
     Expectations
     Fit
     Good.
     Hypothesizing,
     I
     Jettison
     Kurtosis,
     Leptokurtic
     Moments.
     Normality
     Obliges
     Parameters.
     Qualification:
     Rejecting
     Significance,
     Testing
     Uniform
     Variance
     While
     X-bars
     Yield
     Z-scores.

This poem by Lesser and Pearl was originally published in 2008 in the fun resources collection at CAUSEweb.org.  Here is a link to trio of Lesser poems in the Journal of Humanistic Mathematics.