Edexcel S3 2003 June — Question 6

Exam BoardEdexcel
ModuleS3 (Statistics 3)
Year2003
SessionJune
TopicHypothesis test of Spearman’s rank correlation coefficien

6. Two judges ranked 8 ice skaters in a competition according to the table below.
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  1. Evaluate Spearman's rank correlation coefficient between the ranks of the two judges.
  2. Use a suitable test, at the \(5 \%\) level of significance, to interpret this result.