About
This is a rewrite and expansion of a series of documents I wrote for social scientists (specifically, linguists) who were mathematically challenged (see here). They sufficed then, but they didn’t go into much detail and they were specifically written for passive understanding.
Now that I’ve left the university, my audience is different, and their needs are different. I’m reorganizing the material, expanding it and filling holes, and rewriting the material for both active and passive understanding. Because my audience is largely composed of teachers, I’m changing the focus. I’m also adding a section on teaching statistics.
Mathematicians will get bent out of shape, but this material is for those who don’t want the proofs. There are thousands of resources if that’s what you’re after. They won’t be here, because (I’m sorry to say) most readers don’t want them. This is where you can find out what ANOVA is, and when and how to use it. I’m keeping this site entirely functional. Sorry.
When I finish and take this live, I will have downloadable Excel files and exercises. That’s going to take time (I know, because I’ve developed many, many files and exercises for classes). I was going to go with SPSS and Excel, but that would be twice as much work, and few will ever encounter, much less use SPSS, while nearly everyone has access (sorry) to Excel.
I may have to add an Excel bootcamp. We’ll see. Most people these days have worked some with Excel, but not enough are power users. Doing that will probably mean lots of screendumps, and I really hate graphics, creating graphics, working with graphics, you get the idea. But like I said, we’ll see.
The table of contents is here. As I finish documents, I’ll link them to the table of contents, so it will eventually become a navigation page.
