Degrees of Freedom
A)in the Context of the Sample Variance $S _ { y } ^ { 2 } = \sigma _ { y } ^ { 2 }$

question 44

Multiple Choice

Degrees of freedom

• A)in the context of the sample variance formula means that estimating the mean uses up some of the information in the data.
• B)is something that certain undergraduate majors at your university/college other than economics seem to have an ? amount of.
• C)are (n-2)when replacing the population mean by the sample mean.
• D)ensure that \(S _ { y } ^ { 2 } = \sigma _ { y } ^ { 2 }\)

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