t-statistic

Using the permuted datasets (recall, the randomization forces the null hypothesis to be true), investigate the distribution of the standardized slope statistics (the slope, which has been divided by the standard error). Note that the distribution of the standardized slope is well described by a t-distribution.

This exercise is part of the course

Inference for Linear Regression in R

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Hands-on interactive exercise

Have a go at this exercise by completing this sample code.

# Look at the data
twins_perm

# Filter for Biological_perm
biological_perm <- twins_perm %>%
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# Calculate degrees of freedom of twins
degrees_of_freedom <- ___