OCR MEI S2 2012 January — Question 1

Exam BoardOCR MEI
ModuleS2 (Statistics 2)
Year2012
SessionJanuary
TopicHypothesis test of Spearman’s rank correlation coefficien

1 Nine long-distance runners are starting an exercise programme to improve their strength. During the first session, each of them has to do a 100 metre run and to do as many push-ups as possible in one minute. The times taken for the run, together with the number of push-ups each runner achieves, are shown in the table.
RunnerABCDEFGHI
100 metre time (seconds)13.211.610.912.314.713.111.713.612.4
Push-ups achieved324222364127373833
  1. Draw a scatter diagram to illustrate the data.
  2. Calculate the value of Spearman's rank correlation coefficient.
  3. Carry out a hypothesis test at the \(5 \%\) significance level to examine whether there is any association between time taken for the run and number of push-ups achieved.
  4. Under what circumstances is it appropriate to carry out a hypothesis test based on the product moment correlation coefficient? State, with a reason, which test is more appropriate for these data.