Statistical Techniques According to Research Questions

No	Research Question	Independent Variable	Dependent Variable	Statistical Technique
RELATIONSHIPS
1	What is the relationship between Gender and Dropout rates from University	One categorical variable Gender Male/Female	One categorical variable	Chi-Square (Non-Parametric)
2	Is there a relationship between emotional intelligence and academic achievement	Two continuous variable emotional intelligence and academic achievement		Pearson product moment coefficient of correlation (Parametric) Spearman rank order correlation (Non-parametric)
3	How much the variance in self esteem scores can be explained by emotional intelligence, depression and academic achievement ? which of these variables is the best predictor ?	Set of two or more continuous independent variables emotional intelligence, depression and academic achievement	One continuous dependent variable i.e. self esteem	Multiple Regression (parametric)
4	Is emotional intelligence is predict life satisfaction	One continuous independent variable i.e. emotional intelligence	One continuous dependent variable i.e. life satisfaction	Linear Regression (parametric)
COMPARING GROUPS
1	Are males more likely to dropout from university than females	One categorical independent variable i.e. gender  male/female	One categorical dependent variable i.e. dropout    pass/fail	Chi square (Non-parametric)
2	Is there a change in patient’s depression after therapy	One categorical independent variable  Before/After therapy	One continuous dependent variable depression	Paired sample t-test (Parametric) Wilcoxon Signed Rank test (Non-parametric )
3	Is there a difference in depression scores for people under 20, from 20 to 50 and over 50	One categorical independent variable (three or more groups)  i.e. age groups	One continuous dependent variable i.e. depression	One way between group ANOVA (Parametric) Kruskal Wallis (Non-parametric)
4	Is there a change in work performance in different levels of temperature	One categorical independent variable i.e. levels of temperature	One dependent variable i.e. work performance	One way repeated measure ANOVA (Parametric) Friedman (Non-Parametric)
5	Is there a difference in the depression scores for males and females, who are under 20, 21 to 49 and 50 plus	Two categorical independent variables i.e. two or more levels of age groups and gender	One continuous variable i.e. depression	Two way between group ANOVA (Parametric)