What are degrees of freedom in statistics? A simple explanation.

Learning Objectives:
Know what we buy estimates with
Perfect fitting models
Spent vs. unspent df
Complexity vs. fit tradeoff
Joe Rodgers's DF paper: journals.sagep...

[@premjitsalam9365]

I finally got clear the concept of degrees of freedom only after watching your videos. Great works keep it up!

[@QuantPsych]

Thanks!

[@sonja5058]

I have to agree with Mendy, I don't understand why stats professors explain things by using more stats terms that they know their students are struggling to understand. Thank you for using human language! 😄

[@nadaelnokaly4950]

exactly!

[@astrid-w5z]

Glad I could laugh. When I can get jokes about a concept, then I know I understand the concept, to some "degree". Thank you.

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[@hannaholding7742]

P.s also a photographer that is learning stats - albeit for psych ;)

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P.p.s this is Fred the partner of Hannah >.

[@gerardo.saavedra]

Thank you so much, you've helped a peruvian student

[@chiawenkuo]

The best explanation of SD.

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Brilliant, best explanation I've heard

[@jkscout]

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[@YuriPavlov]

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[@nadaelnokaly4950]

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[@larissacury7714]

Thanks!

[@QuantPsych]

No problem!

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These are very good videos. Thank you for making them.

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[@paulbearcamps]

This was helpful. Thank you :)

[@jekamito]

Finally I understood it! Thank you. I hope you can gret some milk and eggs for that nice boy.

[@r.hainez2131]

Hi, you talk about your Jasp module. Do you intent to implement it into jamovi as well (the Flexplot module in jamovi is less complete than its jasp counterpart)?

[@QuantPsych]

Kinda. I'm actually going to collaborate with the maker of the gamlj module for the automation of model graphics, then beef up the flexplot part.

[@calenwu]

mf explains this in 6minutes while my computational statistics professor cant explain this in 2 lectures

[@Dufflebags202]

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[@amedeoottolenghi4132]

what is a numerator df and a denominator df

[@LoveCityYoga]

Hi! The link is not there for the paper you cited

[@QuantPsych]

It's there now :)

[@mikhaeldito]

Great video as always! I know spending a lot of DF is bad, but I never really get the reason why. This video helps!
EDIT: So then how's the remaining degrees of freedom used in a statistical test? Is it the actual "sample size" that we use to estimate our parameters?

[@QuantPsych]

The remaining degrees of freedom are used to compute P values. You may remember from intro stats that you had to look up the significant P value for a given test statistic (for example T), and for a given degrees of freedom.

[@mikhaeldito]

Thanks! By the way, I really like your working hours metaphor. It is much easier to explain IMHO.

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