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What is a p ‐value?
Author(s) -
Humphrey Patricia
Publication year - 2011
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.1467-9639.2010.00446.x
Subject(s) - value (mathematics) , statistical hypothesis testing , class (philosophy) , p value , mathematics , test (biology) , statistics , computer science , artificial intelligence , paleontology , biology
An in‐class activity is described that can be used not only to motivate hypothesis testing, but also to understand and compute the p ‐value and power in a statistical test.