Suppose That Ten New Smart Phone Models Were Evaluated by Two

question 11

Multiple Choice

Suppose that ten new smart phone models were evaluated by two consumer electronics magazines (Popular Electronics and Electronics Now) from 1 (best) to 10 (worst) as shown below. To determine if there is a difference in the rankings between the two magazines, the appropriate nonparametric method is

• A) Wilcoxon rank-sum test.
• B) Wilcoxon signed-rank test.
• C) Spearman's rho test.
• D) Kruskal-Wallis test.
• E) Kendall's tau test.

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