A Statistician Performs a Mann-Whitney Test to Compare the Means $\mu _ { 1 }$

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Essay

A statistician performs a Mann-Whitney test to compare the means of two populations using independent simple random samples. Suppose that the sum of the ranks for sample 1 is much larger than the sum of the ranks for sample 2 . Explain in your own words what this suggests about the relationship between $\mu _ { 1 }$ and $\mu _ { 2 }$ .

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