On Mon, 25 Jun 2018 09:46:07 +1200 Rolf Turner <r.tur...@auckland.ac.nz> wrote:
> Does/should one say "the degrees of freedom is defined to be" or "the > degrees of freedom are defined to be"? > I've leaned to differentiating between one degree of freedom and multiple degrees of freedom and, when needed, phrase what I write accordingly. Canned phrases in the output of a routine may use "degrees" simply because most of the time there are multiple degrees of freedom. After all, the only time "degree of freedom" would be appropriate would be when there is just one. JWDougherty ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
