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Statistics question

lisasimps · 2016-05-21 10:14:14

I would love some expert opinion. I'm working with spss to analyse results of a survey. I've two data sets with multiple categories, always far more than 2. I was going to run chi square but there are a lot of cells with expected count less than 5. Next choice would be fishers exact but spss won't run that test unless 2×2?…

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21-05-2016 11:14am

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lisasimps

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I would love some expert opinion.
I'm working with spss to analyse results of a survey.
I've two data sets with multiple categories, always far more than 2.

I was going to run chi square but there are a lot of cells with expected count less than 5.

Next choice would be fishers exact but spss won't run that test unless 2×2?

Any advice?

I'm hoping to get the paper published so will need to use the correct test

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#2 27-05-2016 8:32am
Yakuza

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Can you merge some cells so their expected value is > 5?

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