Statistical Analysis Test

Question

What statistical analysis should I use in SPSS to evaluate/compare the number of Listeriosis illnesses/hospitalizations/deaths to the associated food that caused the outbreak? I have 6 total food categories (Ready to eat meat, produce, cheese, other ready to eat, meat, and other dairy). The data is for a 20 year period (1998-2018).

Answer 1

Please clarify it to me, you have data table of the size: 20 x 6, right?

And you want to see which one of those 6 are different or same, correct?

So if you have normal-(like) distribution, you can do any t-test (like method)

However, probably more interesting would be to see whether there are some correlations between those 6.

Maybe you could try some PCA as well

For the future reference: always say what is the size of your table, because not all the methods work with all the sizes.