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degrees of freedom  

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  • a difficult concept which has a bearing on many of the basic inferential statistical techniques. Statistical estimates based on samples often contain redundant information which if included may lead to a systematic bias in the estimate. [Source: The SAGE Dictionary of Statistics; degrees of freedom]

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