Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 04:26:14 -0500
Reply-To: Stuart Kirkup <Kirkup@catalinamarketing.co.uk>
Sender: "SPSSX(r) Discussion" <SPSSX-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From: Stuart Kirkup <Kirkup@catalinamarketing.co.uk>
Subject: Which statistical test?
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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"><HTML DIR=ltr><HEAD><META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"></HEAD><BODY><DIV><FONT face='Arial' color=#000000 size=2>I want to test that there is no significant difference in
the profile of two groups for a categorical variable.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>For example, for the categorical variable
Region;</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial> <FONT
size=2> Grp1 Grp
2</FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Region 1 10.5%
9.8%</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Region 2
5.3% 4.8%</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Region 3 .....</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Region 4</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>All Regions 100% 100%</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>There are the same number of observations in each
Group.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>My stats knowledge is fairly basic but
I'm OK with using t-tests on continuous variables. Should I be looking into
a Pearson Chi-Square test?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thanks in advance</FONT></DIV>
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