Date: Fri, 8 May 2009 16:01:56 +0200
Reply-To: Marta García-Granero <mgarciagranero@gmail.com>
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From: Marta García-Granero <mgarciagranero@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Statistics Flow-chart updated
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Clive Downs wrote:
> Thanks for the flowchart of statistical techniques. It is useful to have a
> 1-page summary like this. There are several textbooks I think that have a
> similar summary via a table or a decision tree (eg (from memory) Andy
> Field's book, Perry Hinton's SPSS Explained).
>
Yes, I'm quite sure I didn't invent anything new. I wrote mine from
scratch (I didn't know there were several already made, perhaps I
wouldn't have taken the time to prepare mine had I known that) for
teaching. It was in Spanish and I translated it to English later after
someone at the list asked for one. Perhaps mine has the advantages of
being absolutely free (you don't have to buy any book to get it),
updatable, and it can be carried (in electronic or printed format)
without having to take the whole book.
> One thing I wondered was whether it may be useful to include something
> about descriptive statistics - perhaps a rather neglected area (even if
> neglected, there is continuity between descriptive and inferential
> statistics).
>
I always assume that the knowledge is already there: people should not
try any statistical test until they know what a mean, median, standard
deviation... is, the difference between an ordinal or quantitative
variable... Besides, there's simply no space for descriptives in the
flowchart, if I want to keep its size down to one page.
Regards,
Marta
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