NONPARAMETRIC STATISTICS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does nonparametric statistics mean? 

• NONPARAMETRIC STATISTICS (noun)
  The noun NONPARAMETRIC STATISTICS has 1 sense:

1. the branch of statistics dealing with variables without making assumptions about the form or the parameters of their distribution

  Familiarity information: NONPARAMETRIC STATISTICS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NONPARAMETRIC STATISTICS (noun)

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Meaning:

The branch of statistics dealing with variables without making assumptions about the form or the parameters of their distribution

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Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("nonparametric statistics" is a kind of...):

statistics (a branch of applied mathematics concerned with the collection and interpretation of quantitative data and the use of probability theory to estimate population parameters)