SPS SPS FM Statistics 2024 January — Question 3

Exam BoardSPS
ModuleSPS FM Statistics (SPS FM Statistics)
Year2024
SessionJanuary
TopicHypothesis test of Spearman’s rank correlation coefficien

3. Eight runners took part in two races. The positions in which the runners finished in the two races are shown in the table.
RunnerABCDEFGH
First race31562874
Second race43872561
Test at the \(5 \%\) significance level whether those runners who do better in one race tend to do better in the other.