Is it possible that degree of freedom differs for every STR marker in human data, while the number of population is fixed for all alleles? can this be possible?
Degree of freedom always depends on the number of parameters that you are going to estimate. if you are goinh to estimate only one parameter, degree of freedom becomes n-1 whereas if you are going to estimate two parameter DF=n-2 ....... & n-k for k estimators.
I have 144 diploid population, and 15 parameters to estimate their population genetic statistical analysis. so u mean, I will have15, 14, 13,.... degrees of freedom?