Explaining p-values with puppies
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You’ll find p-values lurking all over data science (and all the rest of science, for that matter). If you took STAT101, the explanation you probably heard runs something like this: A #p-value is the probability of observing a statistic at least as extreme as ours, conditional on the null hypothesis. No wonder that didn’t stick! Let’s try it with puppies instead…Is p-value short for puppy-value?Setting the (crime) sceneImagine coming home and discovering this in your kitchen:Let’s assume this is your dog and your kitchen, otherwise the example just became much stranger. Also, as far as their owners are concerned, dogs are always puppies even when they’re too big to carry around.Let’s put this suspect on trial for the crime of sticking his head in the garbage bin!We’ll work with a default action of (...)
