A one-sample nonparametric goodness-of-fit test to determine whether the observations for a particular variable could reasonably have come from a particular distribution is the ________.
A) runs test
B) Kolmogorov-Smirnov one-sample test
C) binomial test
D) Mann-Whitney U test

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The best choice for a one-sample nonparametric goodness-of-fit test is the Kolmogorov-Smirnov one-sample test. This test compares the empirical distribution function of the sample to a specified theoretical distribution and is used to determine whether the sample is likely to have come from that distribution. The runs test (A) is used to test for randomness within a sequence of observations, the binomial test (C) is used to test whether an observed proportion is significantly different from a hypothesized proportion, and the Mann-Whitney U test (D) is a nonparametric test for comparing two independent groups.

A One-Sample Nonparametric Goodness-Of-Fit Test to Determine Whether the Observations