Refer to the MegaStat/Excel Output for the Wilcoxon Signed Ranks

question 96

Multiple Choice

Refer to the MegaStat/Excel output for the Wilcoxon signed ranks test given in the table below. At a significance level of .01, which one of the following rejection point conditions is correct regarding the null hypothesis, H₀: D₁ and D₂ are identical probability distributions, and the alternative hypothesis of H_a: D₁ is shifted to the left of D₂.

• A) T ⁻ ≤ 2
• B) T ⁺ ≤ 2
• C) T ⁻ ≤ 0
• D) T ⁻ ≤ 6
• E) The smaller of T ⁺ or T ⁻ is less than 8.

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