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Noun: nonparametric statistics
  1. The branch of statistics dealing with variables without making assumptions about the form or the parameters of their distribution
Noun: nonparametric statistic
  1. (statistics) a statistic computed without knowledge of the form or the parameters of the distribution from which observations are drawn
    - distribution free statistic

Type of: statistic, statistics, stats [informal]

Encyclopedia: Nonparametric statistics