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Statistical tests

For the simple statistical techniques listed below, click to find out what the method is for, download a worked example or download instructions for applying the technique using SPSS, with a test data file to practice on.

Statistical techniques

chisuperscript 2Chi-squared test

What is it?

example
[142 Kb PDF]

SPSS instructions
[147 Kb PDF]
SPSS file [11 Kb SPSS]

t--test

What is it?

2 sample example
[73 Kb PDF]
paired example
[62 Kb PDF]

2 sample SPSS instructions
[136 Kb PDF]
SPSS file [11 Kb SPSS]

paired SPSS instructions
[148 Kb PDF]
SPSS file [11 Kb SPSS]

Correlation

 

 

SPSS instructions
[141 Kb PDF]

Mann Whitney U test

What is it?

example
[57 Kb PDF]

SPSS instructions
[143 Kb PDF]
SPSS file [11 Kb SPSS]

Wilcoxon test

What is it?

example
[62 Kb PDF]

 

Spearman correlation

What is it?

example
[131 Kb PDF]

 

Kruskal Wallis

What is it?

example
[108 Kb PDF]

 

Friedman test

What is it?

example
[117 Kb PDF]

 

Analysis of variance (ANOVA)

What is it?

example
[73 Kb PDF]

 

Post hoc test

What is it?

example
[73 Kb PDF]

 

Other topics

Confidence intervals  Download a guide
What are confidence intervals? HTO Davies, 2001.
www.jr2.ox.ac.uk/bandolier/painres/download/whatis/What_are_Conf_Inter.pdf

Bonferroni adjustment for multiple comparisons - what is it?

Logistic regression - what is it?

Meta analysis   Download a guide:
What is meta-analysis?, HTO Davies and IK Crombie, 2001,
www.jr2.ox.ac.uk/bandolier/painres/download/whatis/Meta-An.pdf

Systematic review Download a guide:
What is a systematic review?, HTO Davies and IK Crombie, 2001,
www.jr2.ox.ac.uk/bandolier/painres/download/whatis/Syst-review.pdf

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