A Fund Manager Wants to Know If the Annual Rate

question 103

Multiple Choice

A fund manager wants to know if the annual rate of return is greater for growth stocks (sample 1) than for value stocks (sample 2) . The fund manager collects data on the returns of growth and value funds. Below are the sample sizes and rank sums for the Wilcoxon rank-sum test. The value of the test statistic W is ________.

• A) 215
• B) 9,870
• C) 13,350
• D) 23,200

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