Degrees of freedom for regression: df = n minus 2 for simple linear regression, where n is the number of data points.
How to apply it: The degrees of freedom come from estimating two parameters (slope and intercept) from n observations.
Course: AP Statistics · Unit: Inference for Quantitative Data: Slopes
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