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Chapter 15, Problem 56E

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A political scientist wished to examine the relationship of the voter image of a conservative

political candidate and the distance in miles between the residence of the voter and the residence of the candidate. Each of 12 voters rated the candidate on a scale of 1 to 20. The resulting data are shown in the following table.

a Calculate the Spearman rank correlation coefficient, \(r_{S}\).

b Do these data provide sufficient evidence to indicate a negative correlation between rating

and distance?

Equation transcription:

Text transcription:

r{S}