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Unit 3: Inference for Categorical Data: Proportions

p-Values

Find which tail of the null distribution a p-value is, compute it for a one- or two-sided alternative, and interpret it in context the way graders require.

Topic 3.6 · 8 min read

This lesson comes with the AP Statistics plan

In this lesson

  1. 01The null distribution: what samples look like if is true
  2. 02Extreme means in the direction of
  3. 03What a p-value says
  4. 04p-values from a simulation
  5. 05Worked examples
  6. 06Where students lose points
  7. 07On the exam

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