With the Wilcoxon Rank-Sum Test, What Is Done in the Case

question 7

Multiple Choice

With the Wilcoxon rank-sum test, what is done in the case of equal values?

• A) As the data are from a continuous distribution, this will never happen.
• B) The observations are assigned the mean rank for their positions in the ordered list.
• C) The observations are thrown out and not considered in the analysis.
• D) The equal values are arbitrarily assigned an appropriate rank in sequence.

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