Edexcel FS2 2024 June — Question 2

Exam BoardEdexcel
ModuleFS2 (Further Statistics 2)
Year2024
SessionJune
TopicHypothesis test of Spearman’s rank correlation coefficien

  1. An estate agent asks customers to rank 7 features of a house, \(A , B , C , D , E , F\) and \(G\), in order of importance. The responses for two randomly selected customers are in the table below.
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Customer 1\(A\)\(E\)\(C\)\(F\)\(G\)\(B\)\(D\)
Customer 2\(E\)\(F\)\(C\)\(G\)\(A\)\(D\)\(B\)
  1. Calculate Spearman's rank correlation coefficient for these data.
  2. Stating your hypotheses and critical value clearly, test at the \(5 \%\) level of significance, whether or not the two customers are generally in agreement.