Refer to the MegaStat/Excel Output for the Wilcoxon Signed Ranks

question 24

Multiple Choice

Refer to the MegaStat/Excel output for the Wilcoxon signed ranks test given in the table below. At a significance level of .01,which one of the following rejection point conditions is correct regarding the null hypothesis,H₀: D₁ and D₂ are identical probability distributions,and the alternative hypothesis of H_a: D₁ is shifted to the left of D₂.

• A) T⁻ ≤ 2
• B) T⁺ ≤ 2
• C) T⁻ ≤ 0
• D) T⁻ ≤ 6
• E) The smaller of T⁺ or T⁻ is less than 8.

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