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p-values

p-values is the plural of p-value.

Meaning of p-value

Noun

p-value (plural p-values)

  1. In statistical significance testing, the probability of obtaining a test statistic at least as extreme as the one that was actually observed, assuming that the null hypothesis is true.
    • The larger the p-value the smaller the chance of a difference. A p-value of 1.00 means 0 % chance of a difference, while a p-value of 0.95 means a chance of difference close to 0. A p-value of > 0.95 literally means that we have > 95 per cent chance of finding a result less close to expectation...2008, Ton J. Cleophas, A.H. Zwinderman, Toine F. Cleophas, Eugene P. Cleophas, Statistics Applied to Clinical Trials, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 145
    Synonyms:
    asymptotic significance, probability value

Questions about p-values

What is p-values the plural of?
P-values is the plural of p-value.

Words near p-values in the dictionary

  1. P-spot
  2. P-town
  3. p-type
  4. P-U
  5. p-value
  6. p-values
  7. P-wave
  8. P-waves
  9. p-way
  10. p-word
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