Spearman's Rank Correlation Coefficient/Examples

Examples of Use of Spearman's Rank Correlation Coefficient

Examination Results

Let $S$ be a class of students.

Let $\sequence {x_i}$ and $\sequence {y_i}$ be rankings of $S$ based on the examination results in French and Mathematics respectively.

Spearman's rank correlation coefficient may be appropriate to determine the correlation between $\sequence {x_i}$ and $\sequence {y_i}$.