Given the Following Statistics, Use the Wilcoxon Rank Sum Test $T _ { A } = 42$

question 23

Essay

Given the following statistics, use the Wilcoxon rank sum test to determine at the 5% significance whether the location of population A is to the right of the location of population B. $T _ { A } = 42$ , $n _ { A } = 6$ , $T _ { B } = \mathbf { 3 6 }$ , $n _ { B } = 9$ .

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