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Magic Mirror on the Wall, who has the smallest p of them all? (mander.xyz)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

The "p value" is a number, calculated from a statistical test, that describes how likely you are to have found a particular set of observations if the null hypothesis were true.

P values are used in hypothesis testing to help decide whether to reject the null hypothesis. The smaller the *p *value, the more likely you are to reject the null hypothesis.