rank-order correlation

Definitions of rank-order correlation
  1. noun
    the most commonly used method of computing a correlation coefficient between the ranks of scores on two variables
    synonyms: rank-difference correlation, rank-difference correlation coefficient, rank-order correlation coefficient
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    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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