Degrees of Freedom
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What is meant by degrees of freedom? What does it indicate in our case?
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Degrees of freedom are the number of independent variables that can be estimated in a statistical analysis and tell you how many items can be randomly selected before constraints must be put in place.
general definition: "the number of independent values or quantities which can be assigned to a statistical distribution." In this specific case it is the total number of data points, or samples taken (to form the distribuiton) - 1