P-values are a mainstay in statistics but are often misinterpreted. We propose a new interpretation of p-value as a meaningful plausibility, where this is to be interpreted formally within the ...

We present an importance sampling method for deciding, based on an observed random field, if a scan statistic provides significant evidence of increased activity in some localized region of time or ...

P values indicate how incompatible the observed data may be with a null hypothesis; “P<0.05” implies that a treatment effect or exposure association larger than that observed would occur less than 5% ...