[R] OT --- grammar.

Peter Langfelder
2018-06-24T22:17:01Z

I would use "the number of degrees of freedom is defined... ".

Peter
On Sun, Jun 24, 2018 at 2:46 PM Rolf Turner <r.turner at 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
>
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