"Statistician's BLUEs"
words & music copyright 1994- 2001 Lawrence Mark Lesser
(all rights reserved; reprinted with permission;
may be sung as a standard 12-bar blues, with the words in parentheses
more spoken than sung during the final 2 bars of each 12).

I've been mean-in' to tell ya 'bout my last co-relation,
I've been median to tell ya ‘bout my last co-relation:
She wasn't from Haiti, but she was variation!

(unexplained and uncontrolled!)

I saw her with ANOVA man, and they were not discrete,
I saw her with ANOVA man, and they were not discrete--
I went proba-ballistic and let out a Pearson scream!
(those deviates! What a moment!)

Told her, "If you're gamma data me, mu beta change your mode.
If you gamma data me, mu beta change your mode.
Chi-square you'll be inference, if you random that road!

(you'll be confounded-- and skewed!)"

Called up my dad: "Hi Pa! This is testing my heart!"
Yeah I told my dad: "Hypothesis testing my heart!"
He said,"What's your expectation? Ya met her at an X-bar."
("You're right, Dad! Simulator!")

(solo/instrumental verse)

She was my significant other -- significant at point-oh-three,
She was my significant other -- significant at point-oh-three,
But alpha get her soon -- as sample as can be!
(That'll Fisher! Time serious!)