Answer to Question #79257 in Statistics and Probability for angiebrooks

Question

What is meant by a p- value?
(b) State whether the null hypothesis should be rejected on the basis of the given P- value

Answer 1

A p-value is a probability of obtaining a sample with a statistic as extreme or more extreme than the observed one,
assuming the null hypothesis true.
The null hypothesis is rejected if the p-value is less than the significance level.