When a researcher wants to compare the proportion of perpetrators of domestic violence who completed their anger management exercises during the pretest period with the number of perpetrators who completed the anger management exercises during the posttest period, you would use:

a. McNemar’s test
b. binomial test
c. one-sample t Test
d. t Test for paired data


Ans: B

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