A Fund Manager Wants to Know If the Annual Rate

question 75

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 W follows a 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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Definitions:

Dependent Variable

Outcomes or responses that researchers are interested in explaining or predicting, which change in response to independent variables.

Standard Error Of Estimate

A measure of the accuracy with which a sample distribution represents a population by quantifying the dispersion of sample mean values around the true population mean.

Predicted Values

Estimates or forecasts of outcomes generated by a model based on known data and relationships.

Coefficient Of Determination

A statistical measure, represented as R^2, that assesses how well a model explains and predicts the outcome variable.