nonparametric statistic

What does nonparametric statistic mean?

nonparametric statistic means "a statistic computed without knowledge of the form or the parameters of the distribution from which observations are drawn".

What is another word for nonparametric statistic?

Close synonyms include distribution free statistic. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is nonparametric statistic a common word?

nonparametric statistic is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for nonparametric statistic come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.