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Definitions

Adjective

1. 1
   Having a flexible number or nature of parameters which are not fixed in advance. not-comparable
2. 2
   Free of assumptions about the frequency distributions of the variables being assessed. not-comparable

Adjective

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

Synonyms

All synonyms

distribution freedistribution-free

Etymology

From non- + parametric.

Related phrases

nonparametric regressionnonparametric statistics

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