RANK-ORDER CORRELATION COEFFICIENT

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Meaning:

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; rank-order correlation coefficient

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("rank-order correlation coefficient" 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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