An Electronics Firm Hires a Group of Youths to Go

question 3

Multiple Choice

An electronics firm hires a group of youths to go into websites and plant comments that are made to look as if they came from actual customers. This practice is known as:

• A) ethical malpractice.
• B) market manipulation.
• C) creating a stealth campaign.
• D) caveat emptor.

Interpret and calculate the expected value and standard deviation of the Wilcoxon rank sum test statistic under the null hypothesis.

Formulate null and alternative hypotheses for the Wilcoxon test based on the difference in medians.

Recognize the conditions under which to use nonparametric methods.

Understand the relevance of sample size in approximating normal distribution for the rank sum statistic.

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