The Mann–Whitney U test determines:

a. whether there is a significant relationship between a dichotomous ordinal variable and an interval variable when the data are drawn from independent samples
b. whether there is a significant relationship between a dichotomous nominal variable and an ordinal variable when the data are drawn from independent samples
c. whether there is a significant relationship between a dichotomous interval variable and an ordinal variable when the data are drawn from independent samples
d. whether there is a significant relationship between a dichotomous nominal variable and an ordinal variable when the data are drawn from dependent samples


Ans: B

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