Which of the Following Statements Correctly Describes the Sign Test

question 56

Multiple Choice

Which of the following statements correctly describes the sign test?

• A) It often uses the directions of differences observed in matched pairs sample to determine whether the relative frequency distributions of two statistical populations are identical to or different from one another.
• B) It is often used to determine whether a sample comes from a population with a specified median.
• C) Both (a) and (b).
• D) Neither (a) nor (b).

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Definitions:

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