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Speaking of which, I continue to believe that offering a nonlinear mixed procedure in SPSS would be a game-changer.
> For count DVs, it is common to use Poisson regression, or perhaps negative
> binomial regression if the counts are over-dispersed. There are also
> variations on these models that allow for having an overabundance of zeros
> (search on 'zero-inflated'). These models are run via GENLIN (Analyze >
> Generalized Linear Models > Generalized Linear Models).
>
> But depending on your intended audience, those types of models may be
> difficult to digest. If it is reasonable and fair (i.e., not misleading) to
> use means and SDs descriptively, ANOVA will give you a fairly decent model
> too. Remember what George Box said about models -- all of them are wrong,
> but some are useful.
>
> HTH.
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> maudoostenbrink 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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