Which of the Following Is Not an Assumption of the Wilcoxon

question 18

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is not an assumption of the Wilcoxon matched-pairs signed-ranks T test?

• A)The data are ratio,interval or ordinal in scale,all of which must be converted to ranked (ordinal)data before conducting the test.
• B)The underlying distribution is not normal.
• C)The observations are independent.
• D)The other alternatives are all assumptions of the Wilcoxon matched-pairs signed-ranks test.

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