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Reporting the p-value of a test

Often, statisticians will report their test result as a p-value. The p-value indicates the chance that one would obtained a test statistic which is more extreme than the observed one when the tex2html_wrap_inline4309 is true. The rule is always that we reject tex2html_wrap_inline4201 if tex2html_wrap_inline4313 The formula for p-value is given in the next section. See the Tests of Significance concept lab for more about p-values.



Jan Lethen
Wed Nov 13 16:20:46 CST 1996