You need calculus if you’re going to try to estimate any continuous quantities, but you can often avoid this by making the variable discrete. Instead of saying “the proportion is a number [0,1]” you say “the proportion is either 0, .25, .5, .75 or 1″. This approximates the continuous version and can be done without any calculus.
You need calculus if you’re going to try to estimate any continuous quantities, but you can often avoid this by making the variable discrete. Instead of saying “the proportion is a number [0,1]” you say “the proportion is either 0, .25, .5, .75 or 1″. This approximates the continuous version and can be done without any calculus.