Hoping to Reduce the Waiting Time,a Doctor's Office Tried a New

question 44

Multiple Choice

Hoping to reduce the waiting time,a doctor's office tried a new way of scheduling its appointments.Populations of waiting times are believed to be similar except in central tendency.However,waiting times may not be normally distributed so a nonparametric test was chosen to compare the waiting times.The Wilcoxon/Mann-Whitney test results are shown below: Which is the best conclusion?

• A) The medians differ at α = .01.
• B) The means differ at α = .01.
• C) The samples differ at α = .01.
• D) There are no differences at α = .01.

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