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entity go
that which is perceived or known or inferred to have its own distinct existence (living or nonliving)

abstraction, abstract entity go
a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples

psychological feature go
a feature of the mental life of a living organism

cognition, knowledge, noesis go
the psychological result of perception and learning and reasoning

information go
knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction

datum, data point go
an item of factual information derived from measurement or research

statistic go
a datum that can be represented numerically

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

noun.cognition

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rank-order correlation coefficient, rank-order correlation, rank-difference correlation coefficient, rank-difference correlation go
the most commonly used method of computing a correlation coefficient between the ranks of scores on two variables
Kendall test go
any of several nonparametric measures of correlation (used when the assumptions of standard correlational analysis are not met)
phi coefficient, phi correlation, fourfold point correlation go
an index of the relation between any two sets of scores that can both be represented on ordered binary dimensions (e.g., male-female)