rank-difference correlation coefficient(n = noun.cognition) rank-difference correlation, rank-order correlation, rank-order correlation coefficient - the most commonly used method of computing a correlation coefficient between the ranks of scores on two variables;
is a kind of distribution free statistic, nonparametric statistic

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