If six hand-writings were ranked by two judges in a competition and the rankings are as follows:
  Hand Writing
  1 2 3 4 5 6
Judge1 6 5 4 3 2 1
Judge2 1 2 3 4 5 6

Then the value of Spearman's rank correlation coefficient is

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  1. 1
  2. 0.5
  3. -0.5
  4. -1

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Option 4 : -1
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Formula

The spearman rank correlation coefficient = r = 1 -(6∑d2)/n(n2 - 1)

Calculation

Judge 1(R1)

Judge 2(R2)

(R1 – R2) = D

D2

6

1

5

25

5

2

3

9

4

3

1

1

3

4

-1

1

2

5

-3

9

1

6

-5

25

Total

 

 

∑ D2 = 70

According to the formula

⇒ r = 1 - [(6 × 70)/6(62 - 1)]

⇒ r = 1 - [(6 × 70/210]

⇒ r = 1 - 6/3

∴ Spearman rank correlation coefficient r is - 1

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