2025-01-22 at 12:34 pm
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I choose page 340, point 2 : The P value for the null hypothesis is the probability that chance alone produced the observed association; for example, if the P value for the null hypothesis is 0.08, there is an 8 % probability that chance alone produced the association
many people mistakenly think the P-value shows the chance that “random chance” caused the results. For example, if the P-value is 0.08, they assume there’s an 8% chance the result happened randomly But The P-value only shows how well the data fits the assumptions of the test, including the idea that there’s no real effect. It doesn’t prove whether chance caused the result or not.