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Statistical tests included in ANY-maze

Introduction

ANY-maze includes a number of different statistical tests which it can use to analyse your data. As the system already knows certain things about the variables to analyse, such as whether they represent nominal data, whether there are repeated measures etc., it is able to choose an appropriate parametric or non-parametric test for itself - full details are given below:

Analysis of nominal data

ANY-maze can perform one-way (but not two-way) analysis of nominal data, such as the first zone entered in a test. To do this it uses the tests shown in table 1. If the result of this analysis is significant (by default, p ≤ 0.05) and you've requested post-hoc analysis then the system will employ the tests shown in table 2.

Table 1. Tests used to perform one-way analysis of nominal data in ANY-maze.

*Strictly speaking this should be analysed using the McNemar test, but the Cochran Q test yields the same answer.

Table 2. Tests used to perform post-hoc analysis of nominal data in ANY-maze.

Analysis of continuous data

ANY-maze can perform one-way parametric or non-parametric analysis of continuous data using the tests shown in table 3. For two-way analysis the tests used are shown in table 4. If the result of this analysis is significant (by default, p ≤ 0.05) and you've requested post-hoc analysis then the system will employ the tests shown in table 5.