[Taxacom] RES: south-west Australia

[Michael Heads]

Hi Curtis,
 
'degrees of freedom' means different things in different disciplines - there's a good discussion in Wikipedia.
 
Michael Heads


Wellington, New Zealand.

My papers on biogeography are at: http://tiny.cc/RiUE0

--- On Thu, 23/6/11, Curtis Clark <lists at curtisclark.org> wrote:


From: Curtis Clark <lists at curtisclark.org>
Subject: Re: [Taxacom] RES: south-west Australia
To: taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu
Received: Thursday, 23 June, 2011, 10:46 AM


On 6/22/2011 1:39 PM, Robinwbruce at aol.com wrote:
> Hi John,
>
> For what it is worth, I agree.
>
> For me the issue does not revolve around some trite or banal null
> hypothesis, but on the degrees of freedom of the system under  exploration.
Oh, okay, I misunderstood. "Null hypothesis" and "degrees of freedom" 
are terms used by statisticians, and I see that you're using them in a 
different sense.

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Curtis Clark
Cal Poly Pomona


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