What Is a p-value?

Authors

Patricia B. Humphrey, Georgia Southern UniversityFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2-2012

Publication Title

Teaching Statistics

DOI

10.1111/j.1467-9639.2010.00446.x

Abstract

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.

Recommended Citation

Humphrey, Patricia B.. 2012. "What Is a p-value?." Teaching Statistics, 34 (1): 18-20. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9639.2010.00446.x
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/math-sci-facpubs/53