OCR MEI Further Statistics Minor 2023 June — Question 6

Exam BoardOCR MEI
ModuleFurther Statistics Minor (Further Statistics Minor)
Year2023
SessionJune
TopicHypothesis test of Spearman’s rank correlation coefficien

6 Each competitor in a lumberjacking competition has to perform various disciplines for which they are timed. A spectator thinks that the times for two of the disciplines, chopping wood and sawing wood, are related. The table and the scatter diagram below show the times of a random sample of 8 competitors in these two disciplines.
CompetitorABCDEFGH
Sawing17.116.714.314.012.821.515.314.4
Chopping23.520.621.918.821.524.819.719.3
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  1. The spectator decides to carry out a hypothesis test to investigate whether there is any relationship. Explain why the spectator decides that a test based on Pearson's product moment correlation coefficient may not be valid.
  2. Determine the value of Spearman's rank correlation coefficient.
  3. Carry out a hypothesis test at the \(5 \%\) significance level to investigate whether there is positive association between sawing and chopping times.