A Fund Manager Wants to Know If the Annual Rate

question 12

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. The p-value for the test is __________________.

• A) greater than 0.10
• B) between 0.10 and 0.05
• C) between 0.05 and 0.01
• D) less than 0.01

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Definitions:

Standard Deviation

A measure of the amount of variation or dispersion of a set of values, indicating how much the values in the data set deviate from the mean.

Standard Error

A measure of the standard deviation of the sampling distribution of a statistic, indicating the accuracy with which a sample represents a population.

Standard Deviation

A statistical metric that quantifies the dispersion or spread of a dataset relative to its mean.

Sample Proportion

The fraction or percentage of items in a sample that are part of a particular category or characteristic of interest.