TABLE 2.

The Hypothesis Tests Used in This Study Are Presented by Shaded Cells

Comparison Between or Among	One Sample and Two Dependent Samples	Two Independent Samples	More Than Two Independent Samples	More Than Two Dependent Samples
Nonparametric tests	Sign test1,2	Rank-sum test (or Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney test)2	Kruskal-Wallis test1,2	Appropriate test is not available1
Parametric tests	t-test1,2 Paired t-test1,2	Two-sample t-test1,2	One-way ANOVA1,2	Two-way ANOVA or multi-way ANOVA1

¹Zar (1999)

²Helsel and Hirsch (2002).