In Conducting a Kruskal-Wallis One-Way Analysis of Variance, the Test

question 55

Multiple Choice

In conducting a Kruskal-Wallis one-way analysis of variance, the test statistic is assumed to have approximately which distribution when the null hypothesis is true?

• A) A t-distribution
• B) An F-distribution
• C) A normal distribution
• D) A chi-square distribution

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