English noun: rank-difference correlation coefficient | |||
| 1. | rank-difference correlation coefficient (cognition) the most commonly used method of computing a correlation coefficient between the ranks of scores on two variables | ||
| Synonyms | rank-difference correlation, rank-order correlation, rank-order correlation coefficient | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | distribution free statistic, nonparametric statistic | ||
| Domain category | statistics | ||