Edexcel S3 2013 June — Question 2

Exam BoardEdexcel
ModuleS3 (Statistics 3)
Year2013
SessionJune
TopicHypothesis test of Spearman’s rank correlation coefficien

2. The table below shows the number of students per member of staff and the student satisfaction scores for 7 universities.
University\(A\)\(B\)\(C\)\(D\)\(E\)\(F\)\(G\)
Number of
students per
member of staff
14.213.113.311.710.515.910.8
Student
satisfaction
score
4.14.23.84.03.94.33.7
  1. Calculate Spearman's rank correlation coefficient for these data.
  2. Stating your hypotheses clearly test, at the \(5 \%\) level of significance, whether or not there is evidence of a correlation between the number of students per member of staff and the student satisfaction score.