SOLUTION: The ___________ _____ are the number of values that are free to vary after a sample statistic has been computed.

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Question 1041536: The _________________ are the number of values that are free to vary after a sample statistic has been computed.
Answer by Boreal(15235) About Me  (Show Source):
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degrees of freedom. There are several concepts, from matrices to the simplest--if you add n numbers to equal a fixed sum, n-1 of those numbers can vary. But once they are chosen, the last number is fixed.