Preferred Label : degrees of freedom;
Detailed label : degrees of freedom, ν;
IUPAC definition : A statistical quantity indicating the number of values which could be arbitrarily
assigned within the specification of a system of observations. For simple replication,
with n measurements and one estimated parameter (the mean), ν n- 1. More generally,
for multivariable computations, the number of degrees of freedom equals the number
of observations minus the number of fitted parameters.;
Origin ID : D01572;
See also
A statistical quantity indicating the number of values which could be arbitrarily
assigned within the specification of a system of observations. For simple replication,
with n measurements and one estimated parameter (the mean), ν n- 1. More generally,
for multivariable computations, the number of degrees of freedom equals the number
of observations minus the number of fitted parameters.
