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has gloss	(noun) a statistic computed without knowledge of the form or the parameters of the distribution from which observations are drawn distribution free statistic, nonparametric statistic
lexicalization	eng: distribution free statistic
lexicalization	eng: nonparametric statistic
subclass of	(noun) a datum that can be represented numerically statistic
has subclass	(noun) the most commonly used method of computing a correlation coefficient between the ranks of scores on two variables rank-difference correlation coefficient, rank-order correlation, rank-order correlation coefficient, rank-difference correlation
has subclass	(noun) any of several nonparametric measures of correlation (used when the assumptions of standard correlational analysis are not met) Kendall test
has subclass	(noun) an index of the relation between any two sets of scores that can both be represented on ordered binary dimensions (e.g., male-female) phi correlation, phi coefficient, fourfold point correlation

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has category	(noun) a branch of applied mathematics concerned with the collection and interpretation of quantitative data and the use of probability theory to estimate population parameters statistics