Re: ANOVA with patents as DV

Posted by Jignesh Sutar on Jun 19, 2013; 11:32am
URL: http://spssx-discussion.165.s1.nabble.com/ANOVA-with-patents-as-DV-tp5720812p5720814.html

Hi Maud,

A one way ANOVA seem the correct approach here (read up some of the many tutorials available online to become more familiar with this test), if indeed it is your intention to test the equality of the average number patents between the four different groups of the independent. Assuming the data collected for patents is the actual number of patents represented as a scale/continuous variable rather than banded into discreet bands i.e. 1-5, 6-10 ect ect.

Hope this helps,
Jignesh

On 19 June 2013 12:08, Maud Oostenbrink <[hidden email]> wrote:

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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