A Fund Manager Wants to Know If the Annual Rate

question 80

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. At the 1% significance level, the critical value is ________.

• A) 1.645
• B) 1.96
• C) 2.33
• D) 2.575

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Data Collection Methods

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Alternating Treatments Design

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