SPS SPS FM Statistics 2026 January — Question 1

Exam BoardSPS
ModuleSPS FM Statistics (SPS FM Statistics)
Year2026
SessionJanuary
TopicHypothesis test of Spearman’s rank correlation coefficien

1. At a wine-tasting competition, two judges give marks out of 100 to 7 wines as follows.
Wine\(A\)\(B\)\(C\)\(D\)\(E\)\(F\)\(G\)
Judge I86.387.587.688.889.489.990.5
Judge II85.388.182.787.789.089.491.5
A spectator claims that there is a high level of agreement between the rank orders of the marks given by the two judges. Test the spectator's claim at the \(1 \%\) significance level.
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