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degrees of freedom

Definition:
A statistical term that indicates the number of free parameters involved in calculating a statistic. For example, the degrees of freedom associated with the MEAN of a series of numbers is the number of cases minus one: once the mean is known you only need all the cases bar one to be able to know the values of all the cases.

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© Westburn Publishers Ltd 2002, The Westburn Dictionary of Marketing edited by Michael J Baker, ISBN 978-0-946433-01-8. www.themarketingdictionary.com. Entry: [Stephen K. Tagg], [1998].