Spearmans Rank Correlation Coefficient

Use when you want to compare the ORDER of data, and youre not necessarily concerned about the actual numbers; or, when the original data does show some agreement but doesnt lie in a STRAIGHT LINE.
1st Set up a table of the original data 2nd Decide whether High is GOOD or Low is GOOD and assign ranks to the data 3rd Find the Differences between the ranks 4th Square the differences 1st 2nd 5th Find the total of these squares 6th Put everything in the right place in the formula and calculate rs LASTLY BUT MOST IMPORTANTLY INTERPRET YOUR RESULTS 3rd 6th

4th
d2

McDs

BK 7.3 5.6 4.7 5.3

Rank Mc

Rank BK

USA France Spain UK

6.0 4.5 3.9 5.1

6 d 2 rs 1 n(n 2 1 )
n = number of ranks 5th

Lastly rs = -1 Total DISAGREEMENT 0 Some agreement/ Some disagreement 1 Total AGREEMENT

Two judges have been awarding marks to 6 competitors in a Gymnastics competition An extract from their score cards is shown .
USA Judge A Judge B 5.8 5.6 France 5.5 5.4 Spain 6.0 5.8 Germany 5.3 5.7 UK 5.6 5.5 Canada 5.0 5.3

Do the judges agree with the order of merit of the competitors ????
Scores Judge A USA France Spain Germany UK Canada Judge B Ranks Ranks A Ranks B d Differences d2

A student has been shown photographs of eight different people and asked to estimate their ages The results are shown
Actual age in years Estimated Age 54 45 88 70 22 35 70 62 30 24 15 19 47 56 6 11

Data Actual Estimate Actual

Ranks Estimate

Differences d d2

A student Surveyed the ages, in years, and the prices, in s, of ten second hand cars of a particular type, in a local paper and obtained the data in the table below: Age, years Price, s 6
2790

2
5990

9
850

5
3100

13
650

4
3350

7
3790

8
1350

3
4590

10
990

What can you say about the relationship between the age and price of cars
Data Age Price Ranks Age Price Differences d d2