One of the Assumptions of the Mann-Whitney U Test Is

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Multiple Choice

One of the assumptions of the Mann-Whitney U test is that there are no ties.If there are ties in the data set:

• A) do not use the Mann-Whitney U test.
• B) use the Mann-Whitney U test if there are just a few ties as it is robust to violations of this assumption.
• C) use the Mann-Whitney U test anyway, even if you have lots of ties in your data since it is robust to this assumption.
• D) use the Kruskal-Wallis H test instead.

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