in an article ... that some might be able to access ...
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/322/7280/226
by
Jonathan A C Sterne, senior lecturer in medical statistics, George Davey
Smith, professor of clinical epidemiology.
Department of Social Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 2PR
one of the summary points made is the following:
"P values, or significance levels, measure the strength of the evidence
against the null hypothesis; the smaller the P value, the stronger the
evidence against the null hypothesis"
my main questions of this are:
1. does the general statistical community accept this as being correct?
2. if the answer to #1 is yes ...
then what does this tell us (only this p value) about what the real
parameter value is? (are)
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dennis roberts, educational psychology, penn state university
208 cedar, AC 8148632401, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://roberts.ed.psu.edu/users/droberts/drober~1.htm
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