One common use of statistics is to compile score for each city on a list of cities. Suppose you thought that large cities would rank higher than small cities. To make sure that the age fo the city didn't influence the comparison, you matched each large city with a small one that was founded at about the same time. Which statistic should you use to test your idea about the size of cities and their rank? A) Mann-Whitney U test B) Wilcoxon matched-pairs signed-ranks T test C) Wilcoxon-Wilcox multiple comparisons test D) Spearman r_s.

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The Wilcoxon matched-pairs signed-ranks T test is appropriate for comparing paired samples, such as matching large cities with small cities of similar ages, to test differences in their ranks.

One Common Use of Statistics Is to Compile Score for Each