Spearman's rank correlation coefficient

Last updated: 15/11/2023
Contributor: Claire Woodhouse
Spearman's rank correlation coefficient
Main Subject
Key stage
Category
Statistics and probability: Analysing data
Resource type
Student activity
Maths
Modelling
In pairs, use Spearman's rank to calculate how similar your musical tastes are by ranking six pieces of music. This activity can easily be adapted for different hobbies, food, films, etc.

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09/11/2019

As I teach my further mathematicians in the Music block this seemed a very appropriate activity which they greatly enjoyed. thank you. I used google forms to collect the data.

Mary Starling

09/11/2019

I will use them as a complement for my classroom, but first I need to analyze and prepare them before teaching, specially to adapt your material to my lecture! MP. 20190209

Manuel Perez

09/02/2019

5

5

09/11/2019

As I teach my further mathematicians in the Music block this seemed a very appropriate activity which they greatly enjoyed. thank you. I used google forms to collect the data.

Mary Starling

09/11/2019

I will use them as a complement for my classroom, but first I need to analyze and prepare them before teaching, specially to adapt your material to my lecture! MP. 20190209

Manuel Perez

09/02/2019

5

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5