On 24/06/2018 5:46 PM, Rolf Turner wrote:
Does/should one say "the degrees of freedom is defined to be" or "the degrees of freedom are defined to be"? Although value of "degrees of freedom" is a single number, the first formulation sounds very odd to my ear. I would like to call upon the collective wisdom of the R community to help me decide. Thanks, and my apologies for the off-topic post.
I'd agree with you: "are". Duncan Murdoch ______________________________________________ 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.
