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

question 59

Multiple Choice

What type of non-parametric statistic would generate the following excel/MegaStat output? 0 $\quad$$\quad$ sum of positive ranks
21 $\quad$$\quad$ sum of negative ranks
$\begin{array} { r l } 6 & n \\ 10.50 & \text { expected value } \\ 4.09 & \text { standard deviation } \\ - 2.57 & z \text {, corrected for ties } \\ .0103 & \text { p-value (two-tailed) } \end{array}$

• 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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