Mathematical Sciences: Faculty Publications

What Is a p-value?

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.

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