One common use of statistics in education is to compile a composite score for each university on a list of universities. Suppose you thought that being a private university would contribute to having a higher ranking and that public universities would generally have lower ranks. To make sure that the age of the university didn't influence the comparison, you matched each private university with a public one that was founded at about the same time. Which statistic should you use to make this comparison between kinds of universities? 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 two related samples, such as matching private universities with public ones based on their founding years, to assess differences in their rankings.

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