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CBme

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Which of the distribution-free tests is roughly equivalent to the t test for two independent means?
 
  a. the Mann-Whitney test
  b. Wilcoxon's signed-ranks matched-pairs test
  c. Friedman's test
  d. the Kruskal-Wallis test

Question 2

Distribution-free tests are
 
  a. more sensitive to the effects of outliers than parametric tests.
  b. more sensitive to the effects of scores near the mean than parametric tests.
  c. largely unaffected by the presence of outliers.
  d. both a and c



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Answer to Question 1

A

Answer to Question 2

C



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