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What is it you like to do/know? (click on the option to see the 'answer')

I want to know how to analyse my data

You need to know which variable you want to analyse or variables that are involved in the analyses you want to do. Then determine the measurement level of the variable(s) (binary, nominal, ordinal or scale). For each measurement level or combination the site has instructions on what and how to, get an impression of the data, a visualization, the (post-hoc) test to perform, effect size, and write the results. You can select the situation you have from the top menu (how many variables are involved -> which measurement level(s). Then the steps will appear on the menu on the left.

I want to learn Statistics

This site is not intended as a Statistics course, more as a quick reference guide. However, you could get a good start by first going in the top menu to ‘Fundamentals’, and go over each section in there. Then you should be able to follow any other section.

I am looking for more information about a specific term in Statistics

You could use either the index (incomplete at the moment), or use the search option in the top menu.

I’m looking for the ThesisTools Pro tool

You can find it here

I want to understand the structure of this site

The site is split into a few sections. At Fundamentals some basic terms connected to statistics are briefly explained. A good understanding of these is needed to understand the rest of the site. This would be the place to start if you are not familiar with terms like sample, population, measurement level and significance. There is also a subsection at Fundamentals on the basics of SPSS. Note that for all analyses I try to add videos showing how to perform the analyses with SPSS, R and Excel.

At 'One variable' a sub entry is available for each possible type of variable. In each entry it is shown how you can perform a full analysis of it.

The same goes for Two variables - unpaired and Two variables - paired. The unpaired analysis is often used to show if there is an association/relation/correlation between two variables, or if one variable might effect the other. The paired version is if you are interested in differences between two variables or if people changed.

At 3+ variables - paired, you'll find out more about analysing multiple variables if for example you had a question where respondents could pick more than one answer, or if you had a set of questions all using the same scale (Likert items).

The fundamentals section is required to understand for all other parts, but after that you can jump to any section you like.

I just want to browse around

Sure, have fun

Site Overview

Below an overview of the various parts

Var1	Var2	version	Example question(s)	Visualisation	Test	Post-hoc	Effect size
nominal			Would the percentages for each category be equal in the population?	bar-chart	Pearson chi-square goodness of fit	pairwise binomial test with Bonferroni adjustment	Cramer's V
ordinal			Did at least 50% of the respondents thought it was good (or very good)?	dual-axis bar chart	one-sample Wilcoxon signed rank test	n.a.	correlation coefficient
scale			Is the average age different from ….?	histogram	one-sample t-test	n.a.	Cohen's D
nominal	nominal	unpaired	Does gender have an influence on favourite sport? Is there an association (relation) between gender and favourite sport?	Clustered bar-chart	Pearson chi-square test of independence	Adjusted residuals z-test	Cramer's V
nominal	nominal	paired	Did the overall distribution of favourite brand before and after seeing a commercial from each brand changed?	Clustered bar-chart	Bhapkar test	pairwise McNemar test with Bonferroni adjustment
nominal	ordinal	unpaired	Does location have an influence on opinion about….? Are there differences between the different locations on the opinion about….?	Compound bar-chart	Kruskal-Wallis H test	Dunn's test	epsilon square
nominal	scale	unpaired	Does location have an influence on the grade? Are there differences between the different locations and the grades?	split-histogram	one-way ANOVA	pairwise t-test with Bonferroni or Games-Howell adjustment	eta square
ordinal	ordinal	unpaired	Is there a relations/association/correlation between the opinion about …. and the opinion about….?	heat-map	Goodman-Kruskal Gamma	n.a.	Goodman-Kruskal Gamma
ordinal	ordinal	paired	Did people's opinion change on a brand after seeing a commercial compared to before the commercial?	Compound bar-chart	Wilcoxon signed rank test	n.a.	correlation coefficient
ordinal	scale	unpaired	Is there a relations/association/correlation between the opinion about …. and the grade?	split-histogram	Spearman's rho	n.a.	Spearman's rho
scale	scale	unpaired	Is there a relations/association/correlation between the grade for …. and the grade for…..?	scatterplot	Pearson correlation	n.a.	Determination coefficient
scale	scale	paired	Did people's income change before vs after they followed a course?	scatterplot	paired samples t-test	n.a.	Cohen's D

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