Two faculty members ranked 13 candidates for scholarships based on overall academic performance. Calculate the Spearman rank-correlation coefficient and test for the significance of the population rank-correlation coefficient. Use a .02 level of significance.
Candidate
Rank byProfessor A
Rank byProfessor B
1
6
5
2
11
13
3
2
6
4
1
3
5
5
4
6
13
12
7
4
2
8
3
1
9
7
7
10
12
11
11
9
8
12
8
10
13109

What will be an ideal response?


rs = .8846
z = 3.06; p-value < .001; reject the null hypothesis; the rank correlation is significant.

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