1.Decision Tree for selecting statistical Procedures
Ritchey, F. (2007). The Statistical Imagination: Elementary Statistics for the Social Sciences. McGraw-Hill Education. Retrieved from https://book.douban.com/subject/2891895/
2.Levels of Measurement and Statistical Test
Levels of Measurement and Choosing the Correct Statistical Test
http://web.pdx.edu/~newsomj/uvclass/ho_levels.pdf
3. Online tools for selecting statistical procedures
Statistical Analysis Decision Tree. (n.d.). Retrieved November 10, 2019, from Statistics Solutions website: https://www.statisticssolutions.com/choosing-your-statistical-analysis/
https://www.statisticssolutions.com/how-decision-trees-can-help-you-select-the-appropriate-statistical-analysis/
Neal Van Eck.(2014). The Decision Tree for Statistics. Retrieved November 10, 2019, from : https://www.microsiris.com/Statistical%20Decision%20Tree/
4. Other resources
Parab, S., & Bhalerao, S. (2010). Choosing Statistical Test. International Journal of Ayurveda Research, 1(3), 187–191. https://doi.org/10.4103/0974-7788.72494
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2996580/Statistics – Understanding the Levels of Measurement. (n.d.). Retrieved November 10, 2019, from KDnuggets website: https://www.kdnuggets.com/statistics-–-understanding-the-levels-of-measurement.html/
statswithcats. (2010, August 28). The Right Tool for the Job. Retrieved November 10, 2019, from Stats With Cats Blog website: https://statswithcats.wordpress.com/2010/08/27/the-right-tool-for-the-job/
Burrus, S. (2016, October 11). Selecting the Right Statistical Analysis Tool for Your Research. Retrieved November 10, 2019, from https://research.phoenix.edu/blog/selecting-right-statistical-analysis-tool-your-research
http://www.simonqueenborough.info/R/intro/index.html
http://www.simonqueenborough.info/R/statistics/which-test.html
https://stats.idre.ucla.edu/other/mult-pkg/whatstat/
| Number of Dependent Variables | Nature of Independent Variables | Nature of Dependent Variable(s)* | Test(s) | How to SAS | How to Stata | How to SPSS | How to R |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 0 IVs (1 population) | interval & normal | one-sample t-test | SAS | Stata | SPSS | R |
| ordinal or interval | one-sample median | SAS | Stata | SPSS | R | ||
| categorical (2 categories) | binomial test | SAS | Stata | SPSS | R | ||
| categorical | Chi-square goodness-of-fit | SAS | Stata | SPSS | R | ||
| 1 IV with 2 levels (independent groups) | interval & normal | 2 independent sample t-test | SAS | Stata | SPSS | R | |
| ordinal or interval | Wilcoxon-Mann Whitney test | SAS | Stata | SPSS | R | ||
| categorical | Chi-square test | SAS | Stata | SPSS | R | ||
| Fisher’s exact test | SAS | Stata | SPSS | R | |||
| 1 IV with 2 or more levels (independent groups) | interval & normal | one-way ANOVA | SAS | Stata | SPSS | R | |
| ordinal or interval | Kruskal Wallis | SAS | Stata | SPSS | R | ||
| categorical | Chi-square test | SAS | Stata | SPSS | R | ||
| 1 IV with 2 levels (dependent/matched groups) | interval & normal | paired t-test | SAS | Stata | SPSS | R | |
| ordinal or interval | Wilcoxon signed ranks test | SAS | Stata | SPSS | R | ||
| categorical | McNemar | SAS | Stata | SPSS | R | ||
| 1 IV with 2 or more levels (dependent/matched groups) | interval & normal | one-way repeated measures ANOVA | SAS | Stata | SPSS | R | |
| ordinal or interval | Friedman test | SAS | Stata | SPSS | R | ||
| categorical (2 categories) | repeated measures logistic regression | SAS | Stata | SPSS | R | ||
| 2 or more IVs (independent groups) | interval & normal | factorial ANOVA | SAS | Stata | SPSS | R | |
| ordinal or interval | ordered logistic regression | SAS | Stata | SPSS | R | ||
| categorical (2 categories) | factorial logistic regression | SAS | Stata | SPSS | R | ||
| 1 interval IV | interval & normal | correlation | SAS | Stata | SPSS | R | |
| interval & normal | simple linear regression | SAS | Stata | SPSS | R | ||
| ordinal or interval | non-parametric correlation | SAS | Stata | SPSS | R | ||
| categorical | simple logistic regression | SAS | Stata | SPSS | R | ||
| 1 or more interval IVs and/or 1 or more categorical IVs | interval & normal | multiple regression | SAS | Stata | SPSS | R | |
| analysis of covariance | SAS | Stata | SPSS | R | |||
| categorical | multiple logistic regression | SAS | Stata | SPSS | R | ||
| discriminant analysis | SAS | Stata | SPSS | R | |||
| 2+ | 1 IV with 2 or more levels (independent groups) | interval & normal | one-way MANOVA | SAS | Stata | SPSS | R |
| 2+ | interval & normal | multivariate multiple linear regression | SAS | Stata | SPSS | R | |
| 0 | interval & normal | factor analysis | SAS | Stata | SPSS | R | |
| 2 sets of 2+ | 0 | interval & normal | canonical correlation | SAS | Stata | SPSS | R |