The BMJ has a Christmas issue that contains amusements, my favourite of
which is this one:
<http://www.bmj.com/content/323/7327/1450>
(which has even been used in a 'serious' meta-analysis)
Bob
On 06/08/2015 05:40 PM, David Schneider wrote:
For a humorous application of inverse probability
(which somehow came to be called Bayesian statistics)
see
Stigler, S.M. 1983. Who discovered Bayes's Theorem?
The American Statistician 37:290-296
David Schneider
Quoting Gary Grossman <gross...@uga.edu>:
I'm looking for funny articles published and a few come to mind that I
can't remember citations for so I thought I'd ask here. I don't really
want to page through J. Irreproducable Results or Worm Runner's Digest but
there are a few I'm hoping someone can help me with (vice vis pdfs)
In either the late 70's or 80's there was a note in Nature that comprised
the poem and reviewers comments on Shelley's *"Ozymandias*"
Then at about the same time someone published a paper in Limn. & Ocean.
estimating the biomass of the Loch Ness monster.
And also at some point someone published a satirical paper on "if no one
heard it, did the tree in the forest really fall?"
Of course any other humorous gems would be appreciated.
Please remember the list doesn't allow attachments, so please respond to my
university email.
TIA, g2
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