What Is the Spearman Rank Correlation Coefficient for the Following

question 4

Multiple Choice

What is the Spearman rank correlation coefficient for the following set of data? $$\begin{array} { | l | l | l | l | l | l | } \hline \boldsymbol { x } & 21 & 22 & 35 & 32 & 33 \\\hline \boldsymbol { y } & 18 & 24 & 28 & 22 & 35 \\\hline\end{array}$$

• A)-0.20
• B)1.00
• C)0.20
• D)0.80
• E)-1.20

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