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Number of Dependent Variables

Nature of Independent Variables

Nature of Dependent Variable(s) interval & normal ordinal or interval

Test(s) one-sample t-test one-sample median binomial test

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0 IVs (1 population)

categorical (2 categories) categorical interval & normal

Chi-square goodnessSAS of-fit 2 independent sample t-test Wilcoxon-Mann Whitney test Chi- square test Fisher's exact test one-way ANOVA Kruskal Wallis Chi- square test paired t-test SAS SAS SAS SAS SAS SAS SAS SAS

1 IV with 2 levels (independent groups)

ordinal or interval categorical

1 IV with 2 or more levels (independent groups) 1 IV with 2 levels (dependent/matched groups) 1

interval & normal ordinal or interval categorical interval & normal ordinal or interval categorical interval & normal ordinal or interval categorical interval & normal

Wilcoxon signed ranks SAS test McNemar one-way repeated measures ANOVA Friedman test repeated measures logistic regression factorial ANOVA ??? factorial logistic regression correlation simple linear regression non-parametric correlation simple logistic regression multiple regression multiple logistic regression discriminant analysis SAS SAS SAS SAS SAS ??? SAS SAS SAS SAS SAS SAS

1 IV with 2 or more levels (dependent/matched groups)

2 or more IVs (independent groups)

ordinal or interval categorical

interval & normal 1 interval IV ordinal or interval categorical interval & normal

1 or more interval IVs and/ or 1 or more categorical IVs

analysis of covariance SAS SAS SAS SAS SAS SAS SAS

categorical interval & normal interval & normal interval & normal interval & normal Nature of Dependent Variable(s)

2 or more 2 or more 2 sets of 2 or more 2 or more Number of Dependent Variables

1 IV with 2 or more levels (independent groups) 2 or more 0 0 Nature of Independent Variables

one-way MANOVA multivariate multiple linear regression canonical correlation factor analysis Test(s)

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