Statistical Songs

"It had to be U (U D transpose V)" is a song explaining the mathematics of the singular value decomposition (SVD), one of the most useful results in matrix algebra, and one which has a vast range of practical applications...

Yuna Blum, a doctoral student in statistics and genetics at the Agrocampus Rennes, sings "CARMEtime" at the dinner of the international conference CARME 2011. Lyrics by Michael Greenacre.

Yuna Blum, a doctoral student in statistics and genetics at the Agrocampus, Rennes, sings "CARME on my mind" at the dinner of CARME 2011, the 6th International Conference on Correspondence Analysis and Related Methods, org...

Performed by Gurdeep Stephens & Michael Greenacre

Music: George Gershwin

Statistical Modelling Lyrics: Michael Greenacre (see below)

It's summertime,

Statistical modelling is easy,

Data are fitting,

Explained variance is ...

Performed by Gurdeep Stephens & Michael Greenacre

Music: George Gershwin

Statistical Modelling Lyrics: Michael Greenacre (see below)

It ain't necessarily so,

It ain't necessarily so

That for models to be formal

Errors hav...

Performed by Gurdeep Stephens & Michael Greenacre

Music: George Gershwin

Statistical Modelling Lyrics: Michael Greenacre (see below)

Some day it'll come along

The model I love,

It'll be robust and strong

The model I love,...

Performed by Gurdeep Stephens & Michael Greenacre

Music: Duke Ellington

Statistical Modelling Lyrics: Michael Greenacre (see below)

It don't mean a thing if you don't do modelling,

Doo-wah-doo-wah-doo-wah-doo-wa­h-doo-wah-...

The evening of 20 January, 2008, in anticipation of the sun returning to Tromso the next day, Salve Dahle, chairman of the organizing committee, ex...