I am not sure I am reading your post correctly.
Is there reason to believe that it has a specific non-normal
distribution in the population e.g., is it a percentage or a reaction
time or . . .?
do you have a single categorical independent variable with many
categories or do you have several crossed independent variables?
What is the design you want for the multivariate analysis? The same
categorical variable(s)on the independent side? Are there other
dependent variables or do you have the same variable repeated?
Also it helps us to understand you question if you describe your
variables and what their values represent.
How many cases will you have in your data set?
Is the design a pure experiment with random assignment to treatment or
is it a quasi-experimental design?
What questions are you using the data to seek answers for?
Art Kendall
Social Research Consultants
moni wrote:
> hello.
> I'm a resident in general surgery and i'm desesperated!!!! I don't
> know what test to use in spss!! i want to do an univariate and after
> multivariate analysis between a quantitative variable and multiple
> categoric variable and the distribuition of the quantitative measure
> is not normal! I think that i can use the one-way anova to calculate
> de mean of the quantitative variable (dependent) for the independent
> variables, but i have to use de kruscal wallis to have the
> significance at univariate analysis! am i right? BUT WHAT TO DO FOR DE
> MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS?
> I hope you can help me! thanks in advance!
> Mónica
