ANOVA with patents as DV

Posted by maudoostenbrink on Jun 19, 2013; 11:08am
URL: http://spssx-discussion.165.s1.nabble.com/ANOVA-with-patents-as-DV-tp5720812.html

Dear all,

This might be a stupid question but I'm quite new to this. I want to run a ANOVA with one categorical independent variable (investment stage; 4 levels: Seed, Early, Expansion and Later) and my DV is number of patents. However, the way I understood using an ANOVA your DV should be either continuous, ordinal or dichotomous. My DV is # of patents, this is discrete, right? Can you still do a anova with a discrete DV like this?

Thank you very much in advance.

Kind regards,

Maud Oostenbrink
Maastricht University

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