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Rank difference — Edexcel GCSE Statistics Definition | GradeGen

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GCSE Statistics · key term

Rank difference

Definition

The difference between the two ranks for one pair of observations: $d=\text{rank of }x-\text{rank of }y$ .

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Edexcel GCSE Statistics · 1ST0

Specification 2e.05 · Paper 1, Paper 2

Revise: Spearman's rank correlation

Edexcel Statistics past papers

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Rank
Spearman's rank correlation coefficient
Sum of squared rank differences

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