Calculation of Statistical Significance

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Calculation of Statistical Significance
Message posted by Carol Broderick (via 128.218.182.43) on January 31, 2002 at 12:59 PM (ET)

I understand the concept of p = <.05, but I don't understand how that statistic is calculated. Is there a specific formula? I can look at a sample and KNOW if something is statistically significant, but I can't seem to come up with the numbers....

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Re: Calculation of StatisticPal Significance
Message posted by JG (via 152.163.205.64) on February 1, 2002 at 10:29 AM (ET)

p=.36, means that this is the largest value of alpha that will accept the hypothesis or if you relect then .65 is your beta error.

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