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How the fuck am I supposed to remember all these fucking terms I fucking hate statistics (hexbear.net)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net to c/askchapo@hexbear.net

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Normal distribution, degrees of freedom, etc etc my brain is blue screening. How am I supposed to remember all this shit? HELP.

I'm bombarded with like 12 new complex terms in each lecture that I'm supposed to just fully understand. Gdhsjfbe fuck my ADHD brain.

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[–] BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This isn't a universal definition of degrees of freedom, it's just "degrees of freedom as it applies in an undergraduate level stats course," which is typically for the t distribution. It's n-1 because you assume all your observations are independent of one another. In other contexts (ANOVA, e.g.), the calculation is different.

[–] silent_water@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago

I get that, just thought it was a strange definition given what degrees of freedom actually refers to