Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells from Basic Research to Potential Clinical Applications in Cancer

Table 4

Statistical tests usually used in the medical literature.

To test the statistical significance of the difference between...
Two or more proportions	Chi-square	Nonparametric
Two proportions	Fisher’s exact	Parametric
Two medians	Mann-Whitney	Nonparametric
Two means	𝑡-Student	Parametric
More than two means	Kruskal-Wallis (one-factor)	Nonparametric
Two or more than two variances	Bartlett	Parametric
More than two means	ANOVA (one-factor)	Parametric
More than two means	ANOVA (more-factors)	Parametric
To test the correlation between two variables	Spearman’s rank correlation test	Nonparametric
To test the correlation between two variables	Pearson’s correlation test	Parametric

Adapted from: Fernandez et al. 2012 [65].