Inspired randomly (or was it?), we give you the much-maligned, misused, and misunderstood p-value.

Inspired randomly (or was it?), we give you the much-maligned, misused, and misunderstood p-value. Plus or minus a few references.

Since p-value is used in frequentist inference (and not Bayesian inference), it does not in itself support reasoning about the probabilities of hypotheses but is only as a tool for deciding whether to reject the null hypothesis.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P-value

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/scientists-perturbed-by-loss-of-stat-tools-to-sift-research-fudge-from-fact/
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/scientists-perturbed-by-loss-of-stat-tools-to-sift-research-fudge-from-fact