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

€�What is a p-value anyway” may be very fastidiously and cleverly written. I think we reinforce our image as pedants if we complain about this. 34 Stories to Help You Actually Understand Statistics". How does one verbalize p-value ? They could report lots of answers corresponding to many priors. The big picture is: the evidence for the effect is overwhelming. Story of a dry toothbrush to illustrate the basic funda of p-value. 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". Does it really matter if the wording is a bit misleading? Like it or not, frequentist statistics is, for the most part, the accepted way of doing statistics for particle physics. 34 Stories to Help You Actually Understand Statistics by Andrew J. Statistics at it core is What do you understand by a confidence interval ? What does one mean by Null Hypothesis ? Measurement and statistics for teachers - Van Blerkom, Malcolm L. : 34 stories to help you actually understand statistics - Vickers, Andrew,. If we go the Bayesian route, what priors will they use?