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The term "degrees of freedom" is used to describe the number of values in the final calculation of a statistic that are free to vary. Use also for "effective degrees of freedom".
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How to understand degrees of freedom?
I really like first sentence from
The Little Handbook of Statistical Practice. Degrees of Freedom Chapter
One of the questions an instrutor
dreads most from a mathematically
unsophisticated audience …