Reviewed by David KindnessFact checked by Yarilet PerezReviewed by David KindnessFact checked by Yarilet Perez In statistics, a p-value is defined as In statistics, a p-value indicates the likelihood ...

During his Ph.D. research, mathematician Tyron Lardy worked on a new approach to hypothesis testing. Instead of the traditional p-value, he uses so-called e-values. These turn out to be more ...

Brian Resnick was Vox’s science and health editor and is the co-creator of Unexplainable, Vox’s podcast about unanswered questions in science. There’s a huge debate going on in social science right ...

Hypothesis testing is a formal procedure for investigating our ideas about the world using statistics. It is most often used by researchers to test predictions, called hypotheses. The first step in ...

What is Fisher's exact test? Fisher’s exact test is a statistical hypothesis test used to assess the association between two binary variables in a contingency table and is particularly useful when ...