P-values Explained By Data Scientist
For Data Scientists
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11 min readJul 13, 2019
I remember when I was having my first overseas internship at CERN as a summer student, most people were still talking about the discovery of Higgs boson upon confirming that it met the “five sigma” threshold (which means having p-value of 0.0000003).
Back then I knew nothing about p-value, hypothesis testing or even statistical significance.