Jean Bhea Valencia

BSA

I. A research was conducted to determine if the gender of respondents has a affect

whether they agree or disagree on the issue of same sex marriage. Find the correlation
using phi- coefficient. Interpret the result.

Gender X
0 1
Agree 0 26 18 44
Disagree
1 35 20 55
61 38
𝐴𝐷 − 𝐵𝐶
𝜙=
√(𝐴 + 𝐵)(𝐶 + 𝐷)(𝐴 + 𝐶)(𝐵 + 𝐷)

𝜙
INTERPRETATION: There is Very Weak Negative relation regarding the effect of the gender of
respondents on the issue of same sex marriage

II. A research study was conducted to determine the correlation between student grades
In science and their grades in psychology. Random samples of 11 students in Nursing
Dept. of Gordon College were taken and the results of the sampling are tabulated below
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11

X Science 92 88 85 94 91 84 76 82 89 78 80
Grades
Y Psychology 95 84 83 86 82 86 77 75 86 77 82
Grades

Solve the Pearson Product moment correlation (r) for the data and interpret the result.

Science Psychology
 Grades Grades X2 Y2 X*Y
X Y
1 92 95 8464 9025 8740
2 88 84 7744 7056 7392
3 85 83 7225 6889 7055
4 94 86 8836 7396 8084
5 91 82 8281 6724 7462
6 84 86 7056 7396 7224
7 76 77 5776 5929 5852
8 82 75 6724 5625 6150
9 89 86 7921 7396 7654
10 78 77 6084 5929 6006
11 80 82 6400 6724 6560
N=11 ∑X =939 ∑Y =913 ∑X2 =80511 ∑Y2=76089 ∑X ∗ Y =78179

𝑛(∑𝑥𝑦) − (∑𝑥)(∑𝑦)
𝑟 𝑟

𝑟 There is a strong positive correlation between the students’ grades in

science and their grades in psychology.

III. Rank the score of students according to their class standing and their study habits. Find
the correlation between variables X and Y. Compute the spearman-rho correlation and
interpret the result.
 A B C D E F G H
X 82 90 79 86 96 80 92 93 91 81

Students I J
Class
standing
Y Study habits 83 91 78 88 92 82 93 90 95 80

Rank
Rank
Class Study (Class
(Study D 𝐷2
standing habits standing
habits)
)
82 83 4 4 0 0
90 91 6 7 -1 1
79 78 1 1 0 0
86 88 5 5 0 0
96 92 10 8 2 4
80 82 2 3 -1 1
92 93 8 9 -1 1
93 90 9 6 3 9
91 95 7 10 -3 9
81 80 3 2 1 1
26
∑𝑑2= 1+4+1+1+9+9+1= 26

𝑟𝑠

𝑟𝑠

𝑟𝑠

𝑟𝑠

𝑟𝑠
𝑟𝑠 = 1 − 0.16
𝑟𝑠 = 0.84
As n=10. Hence, we have 𝒓𝒔 of 0.84. This indicates a very strong positive relationship
between the ranks of the score of the students according to their class standing and
study habits.