The idea of significance tests

This tutorial gives some intuition for how we go through a significance test, what a p-value is, how we make conclusions, and what types of error we may make in our conclusions.

Simple hypothesis testing

Idea behind hypothesis testing

Simple hypothesis testing

Examples of null and alternative hypotheses

Writing null and alternative hypotheses

P-values and significance tests

Comparing P-values to different significance levels

Estimating a P-value from a simulation

Estimating P-values from simulations