P-values are random variables

American Statistician

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 242-245

  Murdoch, Duncan J ^a   Tsai, Yu Ling ^b   Adcock, James ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR   (Canada)

Author keywords

Empirical cumulative distribution function (ECDF); Histograms; Hypothesis testing; Teaching statistics

Indexed keywords

EID: 49649087751     PISSN: 00031305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/000313008X332421     Document Type: Article

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