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Degrees of freedom

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The number of degrees of freedom is the number of cells in a table than can be filled up independently of the totals in the margins and at the sides of the table.

As a rule of thumb the number of degrees of freedom is equal to:

(number of columns -1 ) x (number of rows - 1)

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