Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun rank-order_correlation_coefficient

1 sense of rank-order correlation coefficient

Sense 1
rank-order correlation coefficient, rank-order correlation, rank-difference correlation coefficient, rank-difference correlation -- (the most commonly used method of computing a correlation coefficient between the ranks of scores on two variables)
       => nonparametric statistic, distribution free statistic -- (a statistic computed without knowledge of the form or the parameters of the distribution from which observations are drawn)