Degrees of freedom Degrees of freedom refers to the amount

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Degrees of freedom Degrees of freedom refers to the amount of values you have that are free to vary before there is no more possible variation in your choices in order to produce a specified statistic Let s look at 1 3 and 8 as our set Mean 4 Our deviations from the mean are 1 3 and 4 If you are given just two of those values the last one is predetermined Therefore you have 2 degrees of freedom Degrees of freedom is often n 1