rank-order correlation coefficient

Noun
  1. The most commonly used method of computing a correlation coefficient between the ranks of scores on two variables (synset 106043831)
    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: distribution free statistic, nonparametric statistic - a statistic computed without knowledge of the form or the parameters of the distribution from which observations are drawn
    same as: rank-difference correlation, rank-difference correlation coefficient, rank-order correlation

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