The Observed Significance of a Test

This section explains what the observed significance of a test is, including how to compute and use it in the p-value approach.

Introduction

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

  1. To learn what the observed significance of a test is.
  2. To learn how to compute the observed significance of a test.
  3. To learn how to apply the p-value approach to hypothesis testing.

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