--- On Mon, 12/10/09, Francesco Trivieri wrote:
> thank you for your answer. Of course the p-value I was
> referring to is greater than 0.1 (and lower tha 0.2).
I hope you mean less than .1, i.e. closer to 0. The
p-value is the probability of observing the test statistic
you found in your data or an extremer test-statistic, given
that the null-hypothesis is true. If this probability is
small, then we conclude that it is too unlikely that we got
the data we got by accident, so there must be something
wrong with the null hypothesis, and we reject the
null-hypothesis. So small p-value = reject = significant,
large p-value = not reject = not significant.
-- Maarten
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Maarten L. Buis
Institut fuer Soziologie
Universitaet Tuebingen
Wilhelmstrasse 36
72074 Tuebingen
Germany
http://www.maartenbuis.nl
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