Monday, 11 January 2010

It don't mean a thing...

As the flyout part of the recruiting season is about to start at UPF, I thought it might be a good thing to put a bit of a swing into everyone's step... from my colleague Michael Greenacre comes this rather splendid reinterpretation of Duke Ellington's "It don't mean a thing... if you don't do modelling":
It don't mean a thing if you don't do modelling,
Doo-wah-doo-wah-doo-wah-doo-wah-doo-wah-doo-wah-doo-wah!

It don't matter if you're frequentist or Bayesian,
You just need a model with some alphas and betas, x's and y's, and i's and j's and k's in!

So it don't mean a thing if you don't do modelling,
Doo-wah-doo-wah-doo-wah-doo-wah-doo-wah-doo-wah-doo-wah!
[I will suggest that ITFD statistics supremo Kurt Schmidheiny adopts it as the theme song of our quant methods class]

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