An army psychologist gave a random sample of seven soldiers a test to measure sense of humor and another test to measure aggressiveness. Higher scores mean greater sense of humor or more aggressiveness. Soldier

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An army psychologist gave a random sample of seven soldiers a test to measure sense of humor and another test to measure aggressiveness. Higher scores mean greater sense of humor or more aggressiveness.

Soldier 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Score on humor test 74 55 87 60 54 53 69
Score on aggressiveness test 75 45 59 76 66 43 60

Using a 0.05 level of significance, test the claim that rank in humor has a monotone-decreasing relation to rank in aggressiveness.

(a) Ranking the data with rank 1 for highest score on a test, make a table of ranks to be used in a Spearman rank correlation test.

Soldier Humor
Rank x
Aggressiveness
Rank y
d = x - y d2
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
































Σd2 = 


(b) What is the level of significance?
(c) Compute the sample test statistic. (Use 3 decimal places.)
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(a). Make a table of ranks to be used in a Spearman rank correlation test:

Given data represents the values of scores of a random sample of 7 soldiers under the humor test and regressiveness test.

The table of ranks to be used in a Spearman rank correlation test are given below:

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The spearman rank correlation coefficient is obtained as 0.3571 from the calculation given below:

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Thus, the spearman rank correlation coefficient is 0.3571.

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