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Statistics without Math

William E. Magnusson, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Brazil, and Guilherme Mourão, Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisas Agropecuárias Pantanal, Brazil

2004
136 pages, 73 illustrations
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Statistics without Math is not your typical statistics book; nor is it designed to serve as a substitute for conventional statistical texts. Experience with ecology students and researchers has shown that too much mathematical detail diverts attention away from basic logical concepts, resulting in errors in sampling design, data analysis, and comprehension of the ecological literature. Hence, this book starts with real-world observations and explains how statistics may be used as a practical tool to answer questions about them, and to clearly communicate these results. The book targets intermediate-level statistics (given short shrift in most books and courses) and teaches concepts with a minimum of mathematical detail, instead using simple graphs and, where necessary, analogy. This approach, class-tested for many years by the authors, has revolutionized students’ ability to understand statistics.

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Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. Flow Charts and Scientific Questions
3. Describing Things: Some “Scientific” Conventions and Some Useful Techniques
4. How Much Evidence Is Enough?
5. When Highly Improbable Means Very Likely
6. How to Avoid Accumulating Risk in Simple Comparisons
7. Analyses for a World with All Shades of Gray
8. Real-World Problems: More Than One Factor
9. Which Variables Should I Analyze Statistically?
10. More Complex Models: How to String Things Together
11. Straightening the World: Transformations and Other Tricks
12. Multivariate Statistics: Cutting Down the Trees to Better See the Forest
13. How to Write Better Backwards
14. Tips for Teachers (available online only)

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