The difference between dependent and independent samples
I have a sample of 100 organizations and two indicators - the number of employees of retirement age and the number of employees with higher education. I formulate a question for research - does the number of employees with higher education affect the number of employees of retirement age? When choosing a statistical method, should I define this sample as dependent? Thank you for your answers.
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I would be careful not to call this" Research". An elementary problem for analyzing the presence of a correlation of two variables. Well, for example: http://www.machinelearning.ru/wiki/index.php?title=Correlation coefficient_Pearson
About what "Difference (???) dependent (plural?) and independent (plural??) samples (plural???)"it is a mystery, because you have one sample, two values, and they can be very different. correlated (positive or negative) or weakly correlated.