The dfB is the “Degrees of Freedom: Numerator” because it is the degrees of freedom value used to calculate the Mean Square Between, which in turn was the numerator of our F statistic. So, wo...The dfB is the “Degrees of Freedom: Numerator” because it is the degrees of freedom value used to calculate the Mean Square Between, which in turn was the numerator of our F statistic. So, working our way through the table given only two SS values and the sample size and group size given before, we calculate our test statistic to be Fobt=36.86, which we will compare to the critical value in step 4.
The dfB is the “Degrees of Freedom: Numerator” because it is the degrees of freedom value used to calculate the Mean Square Between, which in turn was the numerator of our F statistic. So, wo...The dfB is the “Degrees of Freedom: Numerator” because it is the degrees of freedom value used to calculate the Mean Square Between, which in turn was the numerator of our F statistic. So, working our way through the table given only two SS values and the sample size and group size given before, we calculate our test statistic to be Fobt=36.86, which we will compare to the critical value in step 4.