drlyon16 Posted January 6, 2014 Report Share Posted January 6, 2014 I'm doing my math studies IA on the nation's national debt compared to suicide rate and Im confused on what math to do. Do I do spearman's or pearson's or chi squared or what? Thanks! Any input is appreciated Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
theasiantomato Posted January 6, 2014 Report Share Posted January 6, 2014 Which test you do depends on what your variables are. If your variables are both numerical, then you would want to do a spearman's or pearson's. If you have any qualitative variables, then you would perform a chi-squared test. For example, for my math studies IA I compared the genre of a song to the amount of weeks it spent on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. So, since one of my variables was genre, I did the chi-squared test. It sounds to me like you have two quantitative variables and thus should do a pearson's and regression. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
drlyon16 Posted January 7, 2014 Author Report Share Posted January 7, 2014 Which test you do depends on what your variables are. If your variables are both numerical, then you would want to do a spearman's or pearson's. If you have any qualitative variables, then you would perform a chi-squared test. For example, for my math studies IA I compared the genre of a song to the amount of weeks it spent on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. So, since one of my variables was genre, I did the chi-squared test. It sounds to me like you have two quantitative variables and thus should do a pearson's and regression. Thank you! Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
allieib Posted February 13, 2014 Report Share Posted February 13, 2014 What about the second mathematical process? I have gender/preferred music genre and the chi-squared test, but need another one. Since none of the variables are numreical, I can't find another test to do... VERY URGENT! Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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