P-Value: An Intuitive Explanation for Non-Statisticians

How to Find a P-Value and ultimately Reject the Null Hypothesis

Ms Aerin
Towards Data Science
10 min readApr 2, 2020

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If you read any scientific papers, e.g. medical, artificial intelligence, climate, political, etc., or any poll result, there is a term that almost always appears — the p-value.

But what exactly is a p-value? Why does it show up in all these contexts?

The table below shows the symptoms of COVID and the ICU admission and their p-values (COVID-19).

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