What is a P-value Anyway?

Download or read book What is a P-value Anyway? written by Andrew Vickers and published by Pearson. This book was released on 2010 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is a p-value Anyway? offers a fun introduction to the fundamental principles of statistics, presenting the essential concepts in thirty-four brief, enjoyable stories. 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. Describing data; Data distributions; Variation of study results: confidence intervals; Hypothesis testing; Regression and decision making; Some common statistical errors, and what they teach us For all readers interested in statistics.