Of course, Leporello's famous song in Don Giovanni has a list of conquests
by country (I seem to recall 1003 in Spain) and is an example of a
frequency distribution.
For further examples, see my book Dicing with Death, which has quotations
from Leonard Cohen and UB40 http://www.senns.demon.co.uk/DICE.html
Regards
Stephen
At 15:33 13/05/2004 +0200, Johan Bring wrote:
>I would like to start each lecture with a piece of music related to
>statistics.
>I would like to have suggestions of songs/pices that can be related to
>statistics/mathematics.
>
>For example:
>
>- The Marrige of Figaro by Mozart starts with Figaro measuring his and
>Susannas room (my introductury lectures often focus on measurement).
>
>- 'Between zero and one.' by Bo Kaspers Orkester (in Swedish!) is a good
>introduction to a lecture in probability theory.
>
>Best regrads,
>
>Johan
>
>
>
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