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.
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