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Hi Lisa, Lisa H doesn't have editing access to the site now but we've spoken about your question. We need more information as the test will depend on your research question. What are you trying to support? A correlation or a dependence/independence....
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@laura - can you take a look. Hi Molly, Laura will add a link but I think this hasn't been updated for the new EEs - I'm behind on updating the advice on EEs. It is basically the same process but the criteria emphasise slightly different things.
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Site authorHello again Christophe, I have now updated the page and links. Many thanks for the comment.
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