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Hypothesis Tests · Challenge problem

Five subjects’ paired differences are 6,2,5,−1,36, 2, 5, -1, 3. A randomization test asks: if the treatment did nothing, each difference would be equally likely to have either sign. Among all 25=322^5 = 32 sign patterns applied to the sizes 6,2,5,1,36, 2, 5, 1, 3, what fraction give a sum at least as large as the observed sum 1515?