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nickrulz committed Apr 3, 2012
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\title{A Story Composed by Members of Statistics 585, Spring 2012}
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\author{Di Cook \and Carson \and Mahbubul Majumder \and Dason Kurkiewicz \and Will Landau \and Sarah Budrus \and Xiaoyue Cheng \and Walter Bennette \and Adam Loy \and Dan Fortin \and ...}
\author{Di Cook \and Carson \and Mahbubul Majumder \and Dason Kurkiewicz \and Will Landau \and Sarah Budrus \and Xiaoyue Cheng \and Walter Bennette \and Adam Loy \and Dan Fortin \and Nick Michaud...}
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Once upon a time, deep in the prairies of the Midwest, a farmer named Snedecor planted a new kind of seed. The seeds were dispersed randomly through 3.141593 acres of rich brown Iowan soil. A tiny grey bird, with a bright red spot on both wings, was watching ever so closely from the stalk of a tall grass close by. The farmer surveyed his spread of seeds, and used his rake to dust over a covering layer. The sun cast a golden gleam over the field, a contrast against the brilliant blue sky, as the farmer strode away, happy with his work. In darted the grey bird. She landed on a black sod, and proceeded to hop a straight line through the field, sifting the top layer of dirt, eating the seeds. Three perfectly straight lines devoid of seeds resulted.
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Then Fisher had to start his first Bayesian problem.



As the sunlight was refracted through the torrential beads of sweat appearing on the bald and now resplendent head of Fisher, a sign no doubt of both the heightened intensity of the sun's heat at such an altitude, and of the perspiration-inducing subtlety of the Jackal's inquiry, the inquiry itself which would later go down in history as one of the most common-sense-confounding and thereby wholly divisive to emerge from the realm of probability, Snedecor felt a near irrepressible urge to pet the Jackal, as if the animal-deity were no more than a common house cat or lapdog, rather than an omnipotent being who distinctly disdained physical contact with humans, owing to its unfortunate childhood in an animal-god petting zoo. Snedecor refrained, however.

Then there was a collective sigh to let everyone catch up.

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