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adj
Having a flexible number or nature of parameters which are not fixed in advance.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
Topics: mathematics, sciences
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adj
Free of assumptions about the frequency distributions of the variables being assessed.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
Topics: mathematics, sciences, statistics
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adjective
not involving an estimation of the parameters of a statistic
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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History
From non- + parametric.
Across languages
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