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    RANK-DIFFERENCE CORRELATION

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    The most commonly used method of computing a correlation coefficient between the ranks of scores on two variablesplay

    Synonyms:

    rank-difference correlation; rank-difference correlation coefficient; rank-order correlation; rank-order correlation coefficient

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

    Hypernyms ("rank-difference correlation" is a kind 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)

    Domain category:

    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)

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