Contingency

A frequency/count
tables

Association: Pearson product moment

correlation

Both are continuous

Prediction: predict one variable using the

value of the other: simple linear correlation
Dependent
or some method of curve estimation
Variable IS:
Two dependent
variables

At least one is discrete/

Spearman’s rho or Kendall’s tau-b
categorical

A Measure

Association: a partial or multiple

correlation procedure

All are continuous

Prediction: predict one of the

variables using the value of the other
More than two variables: multiple regression
dependent variables

At least one is
Non-parametric tests
discrete/categorical

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 Descrete/ Non-parametric
categorical tests

Recode continuous variables into

categories

One or more
Analysis of Co-variance
independent variables
(ANCOVA)
are continuous
Independent variable represents
two independent groups:
See Measuring Associations Independent samples t-test
Dependent
Variables are:

Independent variable represents

Only two values paired cases: paired samples t-
One dependent test
variable

Independent variable represents

One independent before/after measure on same
variable case: paired samples t-test

More than two One-Way Analysis of Variance

All independent variables values (One-Way ANOVA)
are categorical

Continuous
(parametric tests)
More than one
General Univariate Analysis of
independent
Variance (ANOVA)
variable

All independent variables Multivariate Analysis of

are categorical Variance (MANOVA)
Two or more
dependent
variables
One or more independent Multivariate Analysis of
variables are continuous Co-variance (MANCOVA)

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