Peer 4
No, Unreg is right. The binomial test for 5/5 gives P=0.0625. It should be a two-tailed test. You should avoid one-tailed tests unless the hypothesis corresponding to the other tail is literally…
No, Unreg is right. The binomial test for 5/5 gives P=0.0625. It should be a two-tailed test. You should avoid one-tailed tests unless the hypothesis corresponding to the other tail is literally…
.5^5= .031 (remember that you have a directional hypothesis).
The p-value is the probability of seeing a particular effect, *given that the null hypothesis is true*. So a p-value cannot be interpreted without keeping that null hypothesis in mind...
Jessie Tenenbaum | Feb 28 2014 13:09 ESTThis is a great paper for people like me who think about p-values, and yet are by no means statisticians- highly recommended...