The \(df_B\) 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 \(df_B\) 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 \(F_{obt} = 36.86\), which we will compare to the critical value in step 4.
