P values: What they are and what they are not

American Statistician

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 203-206

  Schervish, Mark J ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Evidence; Interval hypothesis; Measure of support; One sided hypothesis; Point null hypothesis; Significance probability

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030336426     PISSN: 00031305     EISSN: 15372731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00031305.1996.10474380     Document Type: Article

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