Question

You are trying to see if there is a relationship between snowmelt date and wildfire size for the top 20 largest fires in the western USA. You rank each dataset. For snowmelt date, you rank the events from earliest to latest snowmelt date. For wildfire size, you rank fire events from largest to smallest area burned over the lifecycle of the fire. Now that you have 2 ranked datasets, you can run a/the _________________________ to see if there is any correlation between snowmelt date and fire size.

a. 2 sample t-test

b. Chi Square

c. ANOVA

d. Spearman correlation

Answer 1