Flow Chart for Selecting Commonly Used Statistical Tests

Type oI data?
Type oI question
Chi-square tests
one and two sample
Relationships DiIIerences
Do you have a true
independent variable?
Continuous
Discrete, categorical
Yes
No
Tests Ior
Equal Variances
Means
Parametric Nonparametric
Two groups
More than two
groups
Parametric
Nonparametric
Nonparametric Parametric
II signiIicant, do a
test, e.g.
Tukey`s or BonIerroni`s
ANOVA
Kruskal-Wallis Test
Student`s unpaired t-test,
Paired t-test
Mann-Whitney U or
Wilcoxon Rank sums test
How many treatment
groups?
Spearman`s Rank
Correlation
Pearson`s r
Correlation Analysis
Regression
Analyses
Fmax test,
Brown and Smythe`s test,
Bartlett`s tests
Parametric asssumptions
satisIied?
Yes
No
Parametric assumptions
satisIied?
Yes
No
DiIIerences between
what?
Parametric Assumptions:
1. Independent, unbiased samples
2. Data normally distributed
3. Equal variances
II signiIicant, do a
Dunn`s Test