Degrees of Freedom, Explained

You can interpret degrees of freedom, or DF as the number of (new) pieces of information that go into a statistic. Using examples from this video [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rATNoxKg1yA , James Gilbert, “What are degrees of freedom”]

I personally prefer to think of DF as a kind of statistical currency. You earn it by taking independent sample units, and you spend it on estimating population parameters or on information required to get compute test statistics.

In this article, degrees of freedom are explained through these lenses through some common hypothesis tests, with some selected topics like saturation, fractional DF, and mixed effect models at the end.

We read this: "Your bones".

This is review of the book  “Your Bones”, a medical book aimed at the general public by Lara Pizzorno and with Jonathan V. Wright. The review was co-authored with Gabriela Cardillo; she provided the body, medical expertise, and main content and I edited and added the criticisms and asides at the end.

One Thousand Words on Writing Better Surveys

Twenty tips on survey methodology, 1000 words, go!