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Number of
Dependent
Variables

Nature of 
Independent
Variables

Nature of Dependent
Variable(s)

Test(s)

1

 0 IVs
(1 population)

one-sample t-test

ordinal or interval

one-sample median

categorical
 (2 categories)

binomial test

 Chi-square goodness-of-fit

 1 IV with 2 levels 
(independent groups)

2 independent sample t-test

 ordinal or interval

 categorical

 Chi- square test

1 IV with 2 or more levels (independent groups)

one-way ANOVA

ordinal or interval

Kruskal Wallis

categorical

Chi- square test

1 IV with 2 levels
(dependent/matched groups)

paired t-test 

 ordinal or interval

Wilcoxon signed ranks test 

 categorical

McNemar

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

one-way repeated measures ANOVA

ordinal or interval

Friedman test

categorical

repeated measures logistic regression

2 or more IVs
(independent groups)

factorial ANOVA

ordinal or interval

ordered logistic regression

categorical

factorial 
logistic regression

1 interval IV

correlation 

simple linear regression

ordinal or interval

 non-parametric correlation

categorical

simple logistic regression

multiple regression

categorical

multiple logistic regression

2 or more

1 IV with 2 or more levels
(independent groups)

2 or more

2 or more

multivariate multiple linear regression

2 sets of 
2 or more

0

canonical correlation

2 or more

0

factor analysis

Number of
Dependent
Variables

Nature of 
Independent
Variables

Nature of Dependent
Variable(s)

Test(s)