I would use "the number of degrees of freedom is defined... ". Peter On Sun, Jun 24, 2018 at 2:46 PM 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"? > > 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. > > cheers, > > Rolf Turner > > -- > Technical Editor ANZJS > Department of Statistics > University of Auckland > Phone: +64-9-373-7599 ext. 88276 > > ______________________________________________ > 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.
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