Question

A sales manager wanted to determine if increasing sales commissions by 5% would increase employee satisfaction. Her analyst determined the p-value was 0.04. (Use α = 0.05.)
Based on the above output, what is the correct conclusion for the Wilcoxon Signed Rank Test?

a. We do not have evidence that there is a difference in population median employee satisfaction rating before and after the commission change.
b. We do not have evidence that there is a difference in sample median employee satisfaction rating before and after the commission change.
c. We have evidence that there is a difference in population median employee satisfaction rating before and after the commission change.
d. We have evidence that there is a difference in sample median employee satisfaction rating before and after the commission change.

Answer 1

Answer:

c. We have evidence that there is a difference in population median employee satisfaction rating before and after the commission change.

Step-by-step explanation:

Pvalue is less than the alpha-level:

If the pvalue is less than the alpha-level, we have that there is sufficient evidence of the hypothesis for the population mean/median/standard deviation we are testing.

In this question:

Pvalue less than the alpha-level, so there is evidence that there is a difference in the population median. This means that the correct answer is given by option C.