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rank-difference correlation

DEFINITIONS OF: rank-difference correlation

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n the most commonly used method of computing a correlation coefficient between the ranks of scores on two variables

Synonyms:
rank-difference correlation coefficient, rank-order correlation, rank-order correlation coefficient
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
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