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Dickson Lau

7 October 2019

More powerful statistical analysis

Apart from t-tests, are there any analysis skills to show the causal relationships of variable?

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Jason Jiang

21 February 2020

Pleased be reminded that t-tests cannot determine the causal relationships, nor can other analysis skills in a cross-sectional design. Causality needs to be verified by a longitudinal research design.

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Hobbs

11 February 2020

There are also Anova and Manova tests in SPSS. Other software may include more sophisticated and complex data analyses.

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