Statistics in Brief: Interpretation and Use of p Values: All p Values Are Not Equal
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Test statistics and p-values
We point out that the traditional notion of test statistic is too narrow, and we propose a natural generalization that is arguably maximal. The study is restricted to simple statistical hypotheses. An older version of this paper is published as an arXiv technical report: https: //arxiv.org/abs/1702.02590.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Clinical Orthopaedics & Related Research
سال: 2011
ISSN: 0009-921X
DOI: 10.1007/s11999-011-2053-1