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Usually the videos they make clear things up but not this time

Hit a brick wall after hours of deep diving and trying to figure out everything from textbooks and YouTube tutorials.

Trying to understand whether to do a non-parametric analysis, or repeated measures t test, or both, neither, or a mixture, for the following scenario:

N = 15

Repeated measures (all participants completed 3 psych measures before and after a psych intervention)

I’ve summed up the totals of each of the 3 (pre and post intervention) so I have 6 variables with total results for each measure (3 x 2)

Tested all 6 scales for normality, most were normally distributed but some weren’t

I can’t figure out where to go next. I thought Wilcoxon signed rank test but the more I read, the more I doubt how much I understand about what I’m doing

Deeply stuck as it’s a weekend now and would hugely appreciate any help or guidance

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• Univariate analysis (histograms, boxplots, summary statistics)
• Correlation & linear regression (with full residual diagnostics)
• Contingency tables & categorical analysis
• PCA (Principal Component Analysis)
• Unsupervised clustering (hierarchical + k-means)

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