Suppose that 6 federal government economists and 7 university economists were asked to grade the effectiveness of an economic stimulus bill in terms of its ability to increase jobs over the next two years.What nonparametric method is appropriate for testing if the two groups differ in terms of their opinion?
A)Wilcoxon Rank-Sum
B)Wilcoxon Signed-Rank
C)Spearman's rho
D)Kruskal Wallis
E)Kendall's tau

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The Wilcoxon Rank-Sum test is appropriate for comparing the ranks of two independent samples, which in this case are the opinions of federal government economists and university economists. This test does not assume a normal distribution of the data, making it a suitable nonparametric method for this scenario.

Suppose That 6 Federal Government Economists and 7 University Economists