The Mann-Whitney U test is to the Wilcoxon matched-pairs signed-ranks T as
A) retain is to reject
B) r is to F
C) a priori is to post hoc
D) independent-samples t is to paired-samples t.

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The Mann-Whitney U test is used for comparing two independent groups, similar to the independent-samples t-test, while the Wilcoxon matched-pairs signed-ranks T test is used for comparing two related samples, similar to the paired-samples t-test.

The Mann-Whitney U Test Is to the Wilcoxon Matched-Pairs Signed-Ranks