(I suspect there will be much disagreement about "is" vs. "are".)
I'd say something like "the parameter degrees of freedom is defined to be ..." ---JRG On 06/24/2018 05:46 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. > > cheers, > > Rolf Turner > ______________________________________________ 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.
