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What a $p$ -value means and what it does not mean

A $p$ -value is a measure of how surprising the observed test statistic would be if the null hypothesis were true. It is not the probability that the null hypothesis itself is true.

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What a p-value means and what it does not mean

What a $p$ -value means and what it does not mean