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Observations on the Definition of P‐values
Author(s) -
Freund John E,
Perles Benjamin M
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
teaching statistics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.425
H-Index - 13
eISSN - 1467-9639
pISSN - 0141-982X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9639.1993.tb00246.x
Subject(s) - surprise , mathematics , statistics , econometrics , mathematical economics , epistemology , calculus (dental) , philosophy , psychology , social psychology , medicine , dentistry
Summary Many books define P‐values in different ways, and it is generally assumed that these definitions are all equivalent. That this is not the case may come as a surprise, but we shall demonstrate here that some definitions of P‐values are not even consistent with such rudimentary a procedure as specifying a critical region.