Choosing a statistical What are you trying to do?
Describe a sample or population Measures of Central Tendency Mean, Median, Mode Measures of Dispersion Range, standard deviation
Infer about a population from a sample What level of data ? Interval Ordinal Nominal Chi Square Goodness of fit Nonparametric tests Infer about a population from a sample What level of data ? Interval Ordinal Nominal
Interval Ordinal Nominal Chi Square Goodness of fit
Interval Ordinal Nominal Nonparametric tests Mann Whitney U ( 2 samples) Kruskal Wallace H Test (3 or more samples)
Interval Ordinal Nominal Relationship or Difference ?
Relationship or Difference? Pearson r correlation 2 dependent variables
Relationship or Difference How many variables?
How many variables? One Variable Two Variables
One Variable or Two Variables 2 way ANOVA
One Variable or Two Variables How many groups?
One group Two groups More than two Groups
One group Two groups More than two Groups t test for single is known is unknown
One group Two groups More than two Groups t test for 2 samples independent samples or matched samples
One group Two groups More than two Groups One way ANOVA 3 or more levels of the ind. Var.