Is there a relation between police protection and fire protection? A random sample of large population areas gave the following information about the number of local police and the number of local fire-fighters (units in thousands). (Reference: Statistical Abstract of the United States.) Use a 5% level of significance to test the claim that there is a monotone relationship (either way) between the ranks of number of police and number of firefighters. (a) Rank-order police using 1 as the largest data value. Also rank-order firefighters using 1 as the largest data value. Then construct a table of ranks to be used for a Spearman rank correlation test. (c) Compute the sample test statistic. (Use 3 decimal places.) Area 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Police 5.3 13.3 16.2 11.3 8.0 12.7 11.7 1.9 14.6 6.8 11.0 10.3 7.3 Firefighters 0.8 5.1 5.2 3.2 2.8 3.0 4.1 1.3 5.4 2.4 4.8 3.3 3.7

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Is there a relation between police protection and fire protection? A random sample of large population areas gave the following information about the number of local police and the number of local fire-fighters (units in thousands). (Reference: Statistical Abstract of the United States.)

Use a 5% level of significance to test the claim that there is a monotone relationship (either way) between the ranks of number of police and number of firefighters.

(a) Rank-order police using 1 as the largest data value. Also rank-order firefighters using 1 as the largest data value. Then construct a table of ranks to be used for a Spearman rank correlation test.
(c) Compute the sample test statistic. (Use 3 decimal places.)
Area 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
Police 5.3 13.3 16.2 11.3 8.0 12.7 11.7 1.9 14.6 6.8 11.0 10.3 7.3
Firefighters 0.8 5.1 5.2 3.2 2.8 3.0 4.1 1.3 5.4 2.4 4.8 3.3 3.7
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