Nature of Question Number of IV Number of DV Number of CV Level of measurement Distribution of scores Statistical test
Group comparison 1 1 0 Categorical/Continuous Normal t-test
Group comparison 1 or more 1 0 Categorical/Continuous Normal Analysis of Variance (ANOVA, F-test)
Group comparison 1 or more 1 1 Categorical/Continuous Normal Analysis of Covariance (ANCOVA)
Group comparison 1 1 0 Categorical/Continuous Non-normal Man-Whitney U test
Association between groups1 1 0 Categorical/Categorical Non-normal Chi-square test
Relate variables 1 1 0 Continous/Continous Normal Pearson product moment correlation
Relate variables 2 or more 1 0 Continous/Continous Normal Multiple regression
Relate variables1 1 or more 0 Categorical/Categorical Non-normal Spearman rank-order correlation



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