4. At the end of a season a league of eight ice hockey clubs produced the following table showing the position of each club in the league and the average attendances (in hundreds) at home matches.
| Club | \(A\) | \(B\) | \(C\) | \(D\) | \(E\) | \(F\) | \(G\) | \(H\) |
| Position | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 |
| Average | 37 | 38 | 19 | 27 | 34 | 26 | 22 | 32 |
- Calculate the Spearman rank correlation coefficient between position in the league and average home attendance.
- Stating clearly your hypotheses and using a \(5 \%\) two-tailed test, interpret your rank correlation coefficient.
Many sets of data include tied ranks.
- Explain briefly how tied ranks can be dealt with.