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Noun: rank-order correlation
  1. (statistics) the most commonly used method of computing a correlation coefficient between the ranks of scores on two variables
    - rank-order correlation coefficient, rank-difference correlation coefficient, rank-difference correlation

Derived forms: rank-order correlations

Type of: distribution free statistic, nonparametric statistic

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