The Wilcoxon Matched-Pairs Signed-Ranks Test Is the Nonparametric Alternative to the

question 43

Multiple Choice

The Wilcoxon matched-pairs signed-ranks test is the nonparametric alternative to the

• A) one-way ANOVA, independent samples design.
• B) related samples t test.
• C) independent samples t test.
• D) Pearson r.

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