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degrees of freedom:no numbers allowed
Message posted by Carol Fredrikson on October 29, 1999 at 12:00 AM (ET)
Hi everyone! Thankyou for all of your help.
Luckily the question did not appear on my mid-term,
however it will then be on my final.
So my professor loved the answers I got, however how
would I state what degrees of freedom is without using
a single number in the explanation.
Please e-mail me if you know how I should do this:
cfredrik@interchange.ubc.ca
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Re: degrees of freedom:no numbers allowed
Message posted by jg on October 30, 1999 at 12:00 AM (ET)
How about this explanation. If a person can only answer yes or no, how many questions do you need to ask them to get their age to the nearest year.
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