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Wilcoxon Rank-Sum Test. In Exercises 5–8, use the Wilcoxon rank-sum test.
6. Radiation in Baby Teeth Listed below are amounts of strontium-90 (in millibecquerels, or mBq, per gram of calcium) in a simple random sample of baby teeth obtained from Pennsylvania residents and New York residents born after 1979 (based on data from “An Unexpected Rise in Strontium-90 in U.S. Deciduous Teeth in the 1990s,” by Mangano et al., Science of the Total Environment). Use a 0.05 significance level to test the claim that the
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