Test the hypothesis that the Spearman rank correlation is significantly different from 0 [provide a p-value (two-tailed)]?

Question:

The distribution of dietary intake for individual food items is often not very normally distributed.

An alternative measure of correlation between the FFQ and DR that does not depend on the assumption of normality is the Spearman rank correlation (r_s). For the margarine data, r_s = .679.

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