Given That the Rank Correlation Coefficient, Rs, for 75 Pairs

question 31

Essay

Given that the rank correlation coefficient, rs, for 75 pairs of data is -0.783, test the claim of no correlation between the two variables. Use a significance level of 0.05.

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