C., Bayard, Paschall, III wrote:
> I am looking for a source of "portable staistics", i.e. techniques that
> are easy to remember and use, that can be applied without a calculator
> or software program or and do not need reference tables.
>
> Examples are: Tukey-Duckworth two sample test, and the quadrant sum
> test for association (Omstead and Tukey).
>
> Are there others and is there a reference or source for these types of
> procedures?
>
The stem-and-leaf plot springs to mind.
There are lots of this sort of thing in Tukey's EDA book (which I find
pretty
unreadable).
I would start with the much more readable
Data Analysis and Regression: A Second Course in Statistics
Frederick Mosteller, John W. Tukey (Contributor)
Peter
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