A Fund Manager Wants to Know If the Annual Rate

question 37

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. Assuming that the sampling distribution of W can be approximated by the normal distribution, the value of the test statistic is ________.

• A) 4.07
• B) −4.07
• C) −12.07
• D) 12.07

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