In testing the hypotheses, The two population locations are the same, and The location of population 1 is to the left of the location of population 2, the statistics , , , and are calculated with data drawn from two independent samples.
a. Which test is used for testing the hypotheses above?
b. What is the value of the test statistic?
c. What is the rejection region for this test at = 0.05?
d. What is your conclusion at = 0.05?

Question

In testing the hypotheses,  The two population locations are the same, and  The location of population 1 is to the left of the location of population 2, the statistics  ,  ,  , and  are calculated with data drawn from two independent samples. 
a. Which test is used for testing the hypotheses above?
b. What is the value of the test statistic?
c. What is the rejection region for this test at  = 0.05? 
d. What is your conclusion at  = 0.05?

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The Answer is a. The Wilcoxon rank sum test
b. T =

c. Reject

if T

31
d. Don't reject the null hypothesis. The two population locations are the same.

In Testing the Hypotheses, the Two Population Locations Are