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DISTRIBUTION FREE STATISTIC
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A statistic computed without knowledge of the form or the parameters of the distribution from which observations are drawn
Synonyms:
distribution free statistic; nonparametric statistic
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("distribution free statistic" is a kind of...):
statistic (a datum that can be represented numerically)
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)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "distribution free statistic"):
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))
