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NONPARAMETRIC

Dictionary entry overview: What does nonparametric mean?

• NONPARAMETRIC (adjective)
The adjective NONPARAMETRIC has 1 sense:

1. not involving an estimation of the parameters of a statistic

Familiarity information: NONPARAMETRIC used as an adjective is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• NONPARAMETRIC (adjective)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Not involving an estimation of the parameters of a statistic

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Domain category:

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)

Pertainym:

nonparametric statistic (a statistic computed without knowledge of the form or the parameters of the distribution from which observations are drawn)

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