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Quant Bites – What is statistical significance?

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posted on 2022-05-18, 07:53 authored by Beatriz Gallo CordobaBeatriz Gallo Cordoba
<p>This presentation uses pregnancy tests as an example to explain statistical tests of hypotheses. It explains what the sampling distribution is and why having a larger sample size results in statistically significant results even when the hypothesised value is close to the mean of the sampling distribution.</p> <p><br></p> <p>It finalises explaining what statistical significance is not.</p>

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