A Fund Manager Wants to Know If the Annual Rate

Multiple Choice

A fund manager wants to know if the annual rate of return is greater for growth stocks (sample 1) than for value stocks (sample 2) . The fund manager collects data on the returns of growth and value funds. Below are the sample sizes and rank sums for the Wilcoxon rank-sum test. At the 1% significance level, the critical value is ________.

A) 1.645
B) 1.96
C) 2.33
D) 2.575