Dennis Roberts wrote:
> > "First, assume that nothing special is going on. THAT IS, NOTHING
> > BUT WHAT YOU HAVE HYPOTHESIZED IN THE NULL STATEMENT.
"or in your choice of test (it's easy to forget about this!)"
Then calculate
> > how
> > likely it is that we'd get the sample we got, or a more extreme one,
> >
> > just by random chance. That probability is called the p value."
-Robert Dawson
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