Meaning | The most commonly used method of computing a correlation coefficient between the ranks of scores on two variables. |
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Synonyms | rank-order correlation coefficient, rank-order correlation, rank-difference correlation |
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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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Broader | nonparametric statistic, distribution free statistic | A statistic computed without knowledge of the form or the parameters of the distribution from which observations are drawn |
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