A Colleague Has Asked You What the Jonckheere-Terpstra Test Assesses

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Multiple Choice

A colleague has asked you what the Jonckheere-Terpstra test assesses. You tell them that it?

• A) Does essentially the same thing as the Kruskal-Wallis test
• B) Does essentially the same thing as the Wilcoxon signed-rank test
• C) Tests for an ordered pattern to the medians of the groups you're comparing
• D) Does both a and c

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