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Teacher's Corner

A Statistical Inference Course Based on p-Values

Pages 128-136 | Received 01 Apr 2015, Accepted 01 Jun 2016, Published online: 06 Jul 2017

ABSTRACT

Introductory statistical inference texts and courses treat the point estimation, hypothesis testing, and interval estimation problems separately, with primary emphasis on large-sample approximations. Here, I present an alternative approach to teaching this course, built around p-values, emphasizing provably valid inference for all sample sizes. Details about computation and marginalization are also provided, with several illustrative examples, along with a course outline. Supplementary materials for this article are available online.

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