A team of industrial psychologists studies the emotional maturity of high school graduate and high school dropouts employed in the same type of work. The test scores shown below are result from a standardized test given to random samples of subjects selected from the two populations.   High school graduates: 90  85  87  88  57  69  92  94  82  88  75  High school dropouts:  80  54  72  58  41  53  64  60  72  44  45    Perform a two independent samples Wilcoxon Rank Sum test to see if there is significant different between the population medians. Also, properly conclude your analysis by providing your comments on the findings. (The output from the statistical software should be included for supporting your comments.)     Null hypothesis:     Alternative hypothesis:      Report the value of the Wilcoxon Rank Sum test statistic =               Report p-value from the test and the conclusion:         [Place your software output here.]

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A team of industrial psychologists studies the emotional maturity of high school graduate and high school dropouts employed in the same type of work. The test scores shown below are result from a standardized test given to random samples of subjects selected from the two populations.

 

High school graduates: 90  85  87  88  57  69  92  94  82  88  75 

High school dropouts:  80  54  72  58  41  53  64  60  72  44  45 

 

  1. Perform a two independent samples Wilcoxon Rank Sum test to see if there is significant different between the population medians. Also, properly conclude your analysis by providing your comments on the findings. (The output from the statistical software should be included for supporting your comments.)

 

 

Null hypothesis:  

 

Alternative hypothesis: 

 

 

Report the value of the Wilcoxon Rank Sum test statistic =

           

 

Report p-value from the test and the conclusion:

 

 

 

 

[Place your software output here.]

 

 

 

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