Which test should I choose with categorical dependent variable?

[Kokkoristherapy]

Question: which independent variables predict the drop out of some BPD patients?

Dependent variable: 2 groups, continuers and dropouts

Independent variables: some continuous tests (Wisconsin, Stroop, IPO, EDEQ etc) and age level (4 levels), education level (4 levels).

Which test should I use?

 

[Karabiner]

You can compare the contiuous measures between groups using independent samples t-test.
You can compare age and education between groups using Mann-Whitney U-test.
You can jointly use the indepenendent variables for the prediction of drop-out, using multiple binary logistic regression, if sample size is large.

With kind regards

Karabiner

 

[Kokkoristherapy]

Thanks a lot. The sample is very small so I should use the Mann Whitney.