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Degrees of freedom
 

In presence of dependence the classical notion of degrees of freedom vanishes

Professor Dr A G Journel, Stanford University, October 1992

One of Merks's fundamental mistakes is the erroneous use of the concept of degrees of freedom

Dr J P Chiles, Head of BRGM's Geostatistics Service, October 1992

The number of degrees of freedom no longer makes sense for samples with small weights

G Raymond, PEng, CIM Bulletin, November 1992

One of Merks's fundamental mistakes is the erroneous concept of degree [sic] of freedom

Anonymous, CIM Bulletin, March 1993

Degrees of freedom is an older terminology that is not relevant to the modern development of statistics

Anonymous, Journal of Mathematical Geology, April 1995

There is a substantial school of thought amongst geostatisticians that the concept of degrees of freedom breaks down in matters of spatial correlation

Professor Dr A J Sinclair,PEng, PGeo, UBC, November 1998

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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