What statistical test should I do?

How many

variables?

1 variable 2 variables > 2 variables

1 quantitative
Quantitative
Qualitative

Qualitative Quantitative 2 qualitative 2 quantitative

& 1 qualitative  dependent variable dependent variable 

2 groups > 2 groups Parametric Nonparametric 2 groups for

> 2 groups for at
Parametric Nonparametric 2 groups > 2 groups
each variable least one variable

One-proportion
Chi-square
One-sample One-sample
Independent

Paired samples Pearson

Spearman's
Multiple linear Binary logistic Multinomial

test goodness of fit test Student's t-test Wilcoxon test samples

correlation rank correlation regression regression logistic regression

2 paired
> 2 paired
Expected
Expected

samples samples frequencies < 5 frequencies >= 5

Number of

McNemar's
Cochran's
Fisher's
Chi-square test
groups/samples

test Q test exact test of independence to compare?

2 groups > 2 groups

Independent
Paired
Independent
Paired

samples samples samples samples

Parametric Nonparametric Parametric Nonparametric Parametric Nonparametric Parametric Nonparametric

Equal population Unequal population Equal population

Unequal population
variances variances variances variances

Student's t-test for 2 Welch's t-test for 2 Mann-Whitney

Student's t-test
Wilcoxon
One-way
Welch's
Kruskal-Wallis
Repeated
Friedman

independent samples independent samples U test for paired samples signed-rank test ANOVA ANOVA test measures ANOVA test

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