Whichever option you choose, your statistical sentence should include the actual degrees of freedom for the numerator and for the denominator, regardless of which number is listed in the table; the ta...Whichever option you choose, your statistical sentence should include the actual degrees of freedom for the numerator and for the denominator, regardless of which number is listed in the table; the table is used to decide if the null hypothesis should be rejected or retained. Remembering that “k” is the number of groups, k 1 is the number of levels of the first IV and , k 2 is the number of levels of the other IV.