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Thursday, August 27, 2015

Five thirty-eight provides a brand new definition of the p-value

The Five-Thirty Eight blog provides a brand new definition of the p-value: 
http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/psychology-is-starting-to-deal-with-its-replication-problem/?ex_cid=538twitter

"A p-value is simply the probability of getting a result at least as extreme as the one you saw if your hypothesis is false."

I thought this blog was run by Nate Silver, a statistician?

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