WJEC Further Unit 2 2019 June — Question 1

Exam BoardWJEC
ModuleFurther Unit 2 (Further Unit 2)
Year2019
SessionJune
TopicHypothesis test of Spearman’s rank correlation coefficien

  1. (a) Sketch a scatter diagram of a dataset for which Spearman's rank correlation coefficient is + 1 , but the product moment correlation coefficient is less than 1 .
Two judges were judging cheese at the UK Cheese Festival. There were 8 blue cheeses in a particular category. The rankings are shown below.
CheeseABCDEFGH
Judge 115876432
Judge 213852467
(b) Calculate Spearman's rank correlation coefficient for this dataset.
(c) By sketching a scatter diagram of the rankings, or otherwise, comment on the extent to which the judges agree.