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RANK-ORDER CORRELATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rank-order correlation mean? 

RANK-ORDER CORRELATION (noun)
  The noun RANK-ORDER CORRELATION has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: RANK-ORDER CORRELATION used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


RANK-ORDER CORRELATION (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

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

Hypernyms ("rank-order 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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