Refer to the MegaStat/Excel output for the Wilcoxon signed ranks test given in the table below. At a significance level of .01, which one of the following rejection point conditions is correct regarding the null hypothesis, H₀: D₁ and D₂ are identical probability distributions, and the alternative hypothesis of H_a: D₁ is shifted to the left of D₂. A) T ⁻ ≤ 2 B) T⁺ ≤ 2 C) T⁻ ≤ 0 D) T⁻ ≤ 6 E) The smaller of T⁺ or T⁻ is less than 8.

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Because our significance level is .01 and our alternative hypothesis has D₁shifted to the left of D₂_,_{the rejection point condition is}T ⁺≤ 2.

Refer to the MegaStat/Excel Output for the Wilcoxon Signed Ranks