If You Are Interested in Testing Whether the Median of a Population

question 18

Multiple Choice

If you are interested in testing whether the median of a population is equal to a specific value, an appropriate test to use is:

• A) the Mann-Whitney U test.
• B) the t-test.
• C) the Wilcoxon signed rank test.
• D) the Wilcoxon Matched-Pairs Signed Rank test.

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