OCR Further Statistics AS Specimen — Question 1

Exam BoardOCR
ModuleFurther Statistics AS (Further Statistics AS)
SessionSpecimen
TopicHypothesis test of Spearman’s rank correlation coefficien

1 Two music critics, \(P\) and \(Q\), give scores to seven concerts as follows.
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Score by
critic \(P\)
1211613171614
Score by
critic \(Q\)
913814181620
  1. Calculate Spearman's rank correlation coefficient, \(r _ { s }\), for these scores.
  2. Without carrying out a hypothesis test, state what your answer tells you about the views of the two critics.