Which Statistical Tool Do I Use?

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Which Statistical Tool Do I Use?
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How Many Dependent Variables?
What Type Of Outcome?
How Many Predictors?
If Categorical Predictor, Same Participants or
Different in each category?
Does Data Meet Parametric Assumptions?
What type Of predictors?
If Categorical Predictor, How many Categories?
ANALYSIS TOOL
Independent T-test
Yes
Different
Mann-Whitney Test
No
Two
Paired T-test
Yes
Same
Wilcoxon Rank Sum
No
Categorical
One Way ANOVA
Yes
Different
Kruskall Wallis Test
No
Three
One
Repeated Measures ANOVA
Yes
Same
No
Friedmans ANOVA
Yes
Pearson Correlation or Regression
Yes
Continuous
Spearman Correlation or Kendalls Tau
No
Continuous
Ind. Factorial ANOVA or Regression
Yes
Different
Factorial Repeated Measures ANOVA
No
Same
Categorical
Factorial Mixed ANOVA
Yes
Both
Multiple Regression
Yes
Continuous
Two
One
Multiple Regression/ANCOVA
Yes
Both
Pearson Chi-Square or Likelihood Ratio
Different
Categorical
One
Logistic Regression
Continuous
Categorical
Categorical
Loglinear Analysis
Different
Two
Continuous
Logistic Regression/Discriminant
Different
Both
One
MANOVA
Yes
Categorical
Continuous
Two
Factorial MANOVA
Yes
Categorical
Two
MANCOVA
Yes
Both