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Wilcoxon Signed Rank Test Reporting Guidelines in APA Style

The Wilcoxon Signed Rank Test is a nonparametric statistical procedure used to detect differences in locations between two related samples when the underlying distribution does not meet parametric assumptions required for the paired t-test. The test operates by ranking absolute differences from zero and assessing whether positive or negative ranks sum significantly differently, utilizing metrics such as the statistic $W$, p-value, effect size ($r$), and descriptive medians to formalize hypothesis testing in ordinal data contexts within the domain of inferential statistics.