What is a p-value anyway? 34 Stories to Help You

What is a p-value anyway? 34 Stories to Help You Actually Understand Statistics Andrew J. Vickers
Publisher: Addison Wesley

I think we reinforce our image as pedants if we complain about this. How does one verbalize p-value ? 34 Stories to Help You Actually Understand Statistics book download Download What is a p-value anyway? Does it really matter if the wording is a bit misleading? If you take a random sample of people who have taken a stats101 course at some point in their lives and ask them what was the course all about , a most likely answer would be, "It was something to do with p-values". Drawing on his experience as a medical researcher, Vickers blends insightful explanations and humor, with minimal math, to help readers understand and interpret the statistics they read every day. The big picture is: the evidence for the effect is overwhelming. If we go the Bayesian route, what priors will they use? They could report lots of answers corresponding to many priors. Bottom-Line: An excellent introduction to statistical analysis.” Log in to Reply. You might think that in some cases you can use historical values: in the general population, x% are prone to get disease D, and they recover in y days on average. Story of a dry toothbrush to illustrate the basic funda of p-value. Like it or not, frequentist statistics is, for the most part, the accepted way of doing statistics for particle physics. Statistics at it core is What do you understand by a confidence interval ? Gmgraham@rollins.edu on April 23, 2013 at 10:56 pm said: What is a p-value anyway? What does one mean by Null Hypothesis ? When we say "the treatment is effective with statistical significance p=1%" it means that if there were no difference between the treatment group and the control group, we would expect to see results like this (favoring the treatment group) 1% of 34 Stories to Help You Actually Understand Statistics by Andrew Vickers.