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Fun

In this section we provide humorous items related to statistics, including cartooons, a gallery of statistical art, jokes, poems, word puzzles, quotes, songs, and videos. For a discussion of the use of fun materials in teaching statistics see the review article by Larry Lesser and Dennis Pearl.


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Gallery

"A naïve Bayes estimation; useful, anyway."

Sketch by Anastasia Mandel of The Cardsharps by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (c. 1594-1596)

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Important Legal Notice & Licensing Terms

Materials in this section are available for free use by statistics instructors provided that you agree to and abide by the following:

  • I will use the items only for educational purposes in my course materials provided free to students (lecture notes, handouts, course website, etc...)

  • Except as above, I will not redistribute copied or downloaded files to others without the expressed permission of causeweb.org. Please refer them to our website instead.

  • I will cite the source (CAUSEweb.org) and author where given. For cartoons: J.B. Landers ©. For songs: [name of author and composer] ©. Use of Xkcd cartoons should attribute xkcd.com as the source.

To inquire about royalty rates for commercial use of cartoons please contact Dennis Pearl. Commercial use of songs is not permitted without the expressed permission of the appropriate copyright holders.