Edexcel S3 2018 Specimen — Question 2

Exam BoardEdexcel
ModuleS3 (Statistics 3)
Year2018
SessionSpecimen
TopicHypothesis test of Spearman’s rank correlation coefficien

2. Nine dancers, Adilzhan \(( A )\), Bianca \(( B )\), Chantelle \(( C )\), Lee \(( L )\), Nikki \(( N )\), Ranjit \(( R )\), Sergei \(( S )\), Thuy \(( T )\) and Yana \(( Y )\), perform in a dancing competition. Two judges rank each dancer according to how well they perform. The table below shows the rankings of each judge starting from the dancer with the strongest performance.
  1. Calculate Spearman's rank correlation coefficient for these data.
  2. Stating your hypotheses clearly, test at the 1\% level of significance, whether or not the two judges are generally in agreement.
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    Judge 1\(S\)\(N\)\(B\)\(C\)\(T\)\(A\)\(Y\)\(R\)\(L\)
    Judge 2\(S\)\(T\)\(N\)\(B\)\(C\)\(Y\)\(L\)\(A\)\(R\)
  3. Calculate Spearman's rank correlation coefficient for these data.