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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” won't substitute for an introductory statistics textbook, but it makes a terrific companion piece. Tags: What is a p-value anyway? When I teach, I give bonus points for any student giving a particularly dumb answer because those are the ones we really learn from. Offers a fun introduction to the fundamental principles of statistics, presenting the essential concepts in thirty-four brief, enjoyable stories. How does one verbalize 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". What does one mean by Null Hypothesis ? 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. Statistics at it core is What do you understand by a confidence interval ? Story of a dry toothbrush to illustrate the basic funda of p-value. 34 Stories to Help You Actually Understand Statistics". 34 Stories to Help You Actually Understand Statistics. Some folks actually come to an understanding of statistics through equations.