You are interested in evaluating various risk factors/predictors for different types of depression. Your predictor variables are gender, age, race, ethnicity, education, familial history of depression, and current life stressor score. Your criterion variable (depression) has the following categories: dysthymic disorder, recurring episodes of major depression, and adjustment disorder with depressive features.
What multivariate design statistic might you select when you have collected all the observations from a large number of participants? Why? Justify your answer.