Many graduate students, like the author, often learn statistics with a relatively limited conceptual understanding of the foundations of univariate and multivariate analyses. Maxwell, Camp, and Arvey (1981) emphasized that "researchers are not well acquainted with the differences among the various measures (of association) or the assumptions that underlie their use" (p. Frequently, many researchers and graduate students make assertions such as "I would rather use Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) than regression in my study because ANOVA is simpler and it will provide me with all the information I need." Comments such as these are ill-informed and often result in the use of less desirable data analytic tools. Specifically, all analyses are correlational and produce similar latent variables, however the decision to choose a statistical analysis should not be based on its simplicity, but rather on how the analysis fits with the reality of the data and research model.
Ultimately, all analyses such as the t-test, Pearson correlation, ANOVA, and MANOVA are subsumed by correlational analysis, and more specifically canonical correlation analysis.
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