English noun: distribution free statistic | |||
1. | distribution free statistic (cognition) a statistic computed without knowledge of the form or the parameters of the distribution from which observations are drawn | ||
Synonyms | nonparametric statistic | ||
Broader (hypernym) | statistic | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | fourfold point correlation, Kendall test, phi coefficient, phi correlation, rank-difference correlation, rank-difference correlation coefficient, rank-order correlation, rank-order correlation coefficient | ||
Domain category | statistics | ||