"distribution free statistic" | Definition and Related Words

Noun

referred to in: statistics - a branch of applied mathematics concerned with the collection and interpretation of quantitative data and the use of probability theory to estimate population parameters

is a type of: statistic - a datum that can be represented numerically
subtypes:
- rank-difference correlation, rank-difference correlation coefficient, rank-order correlation, rank-order correlation coefficient - the most commonly used method of computing a correlation coefficient between the ranks of scores on two variables
- kendall test - any of several nonparametric measures of correlation (used when the assumptions of standard correlational analysis are not met)
- fourfold point correlation, phi coefficient, phi correlation - an index of the relation between any two sets of scores that can both be represented on ordered binary dimensions (e.g., male-female)
same as: nonparametric statistic