Statistics Decision Tree

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First published 01 March, 2017

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Kaitlyn Bleiweiss

What type of dependent variable (DV) do you have? Scale. Ordinal/Nominal.
Differences between groups or relationships between variables? Differences. Relationships.
How many groups? 2. 3 or more.
What's the relationship between the groups? Independent (different people in each group). Dependent (before/after, same people in each group, repeated measures).
Normally Distributed? Yes. No.
Independent Samples T-Test.
Mann-Whitney Test.
Normally Distributed? Yes. No.
Paired Samples T-Test.
Wilcoxon Signed Rank Test.
What is the relationship between the groups? Independent (different people in each group). Dependent (before/after, repeated measures).
How many independent variables? 1. Multiple.
Factorial ANOVA (most commonly the Two-Way ANOVA).
Normally Distributed? Yes. No.
One-Way ANOVA.
Kruskal-Wallis Test.
Normally Distributed? Yes. No.
Repeated Measures ANOVA.
Friedman Test.
How many predictor variables? 1. Multiple.
Is your data continuous or rank order? Continuous. Rank Order.
Spearman's r.
What is your primary interest? Strength of relationship?. Prediction/Strengh of relationship (one influences the other).
Pearson's Correlation.
Simple Linear Regression.
Examine all at once or in a specific order? All at once. Specific Order.
Multiple Regression.
Hierarchical Regression.
How many DVs? One. Two.
Chi Square Goodness of Fit.
Chi Square Test of Independence.