P-value in a Nutshell: What Does it Actually Mean?

Understand, visualizing, and calculating p-value

Rob W
Towards Data Science
6 min readJan 4, 2021

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Introduction

Welcome to this lesson on calculating p-values.

Before we jump into how to calculate a p-value, it’s important to think about what the p-value is really for.

Hypothesis Testing Refresher

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