What Type of Non-Parametric Statistic Would Generate the Following Excel/MegaStat $\quad$

question 11

Multiple Choice

What type of non-parametric statistic would generate the following excel/MegaStat output? 3.5 $\quad$$\quad$ hypothesized value
6 $\quad$$\quad$ median
0 $\quad$$\quad$ below
0 $\quad$$\quad$ equal
7 $\quad$$\quad$ above
$7 \quad\quad\quad\mathrm { n }$
$\quad$$\quad$$\quad$ binomial
$.0078 \quad\mathrm { p }$ -value (one-tailed, upper)

• A)Subtraction sigma test
• B)Wilcoxon signed rank test
• C)Sign test
• D)Kruskall-Wallis test
• E)Spearman's rank correlation test

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