What Is the Spearman Rank Correlation Coefficient for This Set

question 83

Multiple Choice

$$\begin{array}{l}\text { Two students were asked to rate six different television shows on a scale from } 0 \text { to } 10 \text {. The data are shown in the following table: }\\\begin{array} { l | l | l | l | l | l | l | l | } & \text { Show } & \text { A } & \text { B } & \text { C } & \text { D } & \text { E } & \text { F } \\\hline \text { shown in the following table: } & \text { Student 1 } & 9 & 8 & 6 & 4 & 2 & 7 \\\hline \text { Student 2 } & 6 & 9 & 3 & 4 & 0 & 5 \\\hline\end{array}\end{array}$$ What is the Spearman Rank Correlation Coefficient for this set of data?

• A) 0.413
• B) 0.536
• C) 0.694
• D) 0.886

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Definitions:

Unsystematic Risk

The risk of price change in a specific security due to factors unique to that security, not affecting the market as a whole.

Unique Risks

The specific uncertainties or dangers associated with a particular investment or company, which are not common to all investments.

Asset-Specific Risks

Asset-Specific Risks are those risks that are unique to an individual asset or investment, such as company performance or sector volatility, as opposed to systemic risks affecting the entire market.

Standard Deviation

A statistical measure of the dispersion or spread in a set of data, indicating how much variation there is from the average (mean).