Provide an Appropriate Response $\mu _ { 1 } > \mu _ { 2 } .$

question 83

Essay

Provide an appropriate response.
-A statistician performs a paired Wilcoxon signed-rank test to compare the means of two populations using a paired sample. Suppose that the sum of the positive ranks is much larger than the sum of the negative ranks. Explain in your own words why this suggests that $\mu _ { 1 } > \mu _ { 2 } .$

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