Under what circumstances is the sign test preferred to the

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Problem 1E

Under what circumstances is the sign test preferred to the t-test for making inferences about the central tendency of a population?

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QUESTION:

Problem 1E

Under what circumstances is the sign test preferred to the t-test for making inferences about the central tendency of a population?

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The t-statistic was developed for small-sample tests under the conditions

a)   A random sample is selected from the target population

b)   The population from which the sample is selected has a distribution that is

       approximately normal.

Step 1 of 2

The sign test is relatively simple, non-parametric procedure for testing hypothese

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