A Sports Agent Wants to Understand the Differences in the Annual

question 71

Multiple Choice

A sports agent wants to understand the differences in the annual earnings of players in different sports. The following table shows the annual earnings (in million $) of 52 athletes. For the Kruskal-Wallis test, the rank sums for each group are at the bottom of the table. At the 1% significance level, the critical value is ________.

• A) 11.345
• B) 9.348
• C) 7.815
• D) 6.251

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Normal Model

A statistical model, also known as the normal distribution or bell curve, describing how real-world data tends to be distributed around a mean value.

Snowfall

Precipitation in the form of flakes of crystalline water ice, falling from clouds.

Z

A statistical value representing the number of standard deviations a data point is from the mean in a standard normal distribution.

Percentage

A proportion or share expressed as a fraction of 100, denoting part of a whole.