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In this case your data follows a binomial distribution therefore a use a chi-squared test if your sample is large or fishers test if your sample is small. A z-test is valid here if your variables are independent.

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. Usually a correlation test is conducted when there is only one independent variable and one independent variable. If Student E wanted to study the relationship between several independent variables eg number of hours spent sleeping number of calories consumed per day and weight loss then she would use a linear regression procedure. A z-test is used only if your data follows a standard normal distribution.

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