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Question 198

Dr. Sterling’s investigation on weekly screen usage (in hours) and sleep quality index scores among 8 undergraduate students yielded the data shown in Table 1.

Complete Table 2 and calculate Spearman’s rank correlation coefficient (rsr_srs​) between the weekly screen usage and the sleep quality index score.

Table 1: Raw scores for screen usage and sleep quality index

StudentScreen usage (hours per week)Sleep quality index
A1442
B1835
C1838
D2228
E2528
F2820
G3515
H1245

Table 2: Step-by-step ranking and calculation

Screen usage (hours per week)Rank 1Sleep quality indexRank 2dddd2d^2d2
142427
183.5355
183.5386
225283.5
256283.5
287202
358151
121458
Total:
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