| freedom | The rights of individuals to act and make decisions without external constraints. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| degrees of freedom | In statistics, the number of independent comparisons that can be made between the members of a sample (e.g., subjects, test items and scores, trials, conditions); in a contingency table it is on e less than the number of row categories multiplied by one less than the number of column categories. (05 Mar 2000) |
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