P Value

Question 1

p-value

Answer 1

A decision between the two hypotheses is made by viewing the ‘p-value’ or ‘Sig-value’ in SPSS, which is the probability (or chance) of getting the collected data (or more extreme) under the assumption of the null hypothesis.

Question 2

p ≤ 0.05 (‘p is less than or equal to 0.05’), -what hyp?

Answer 2

reject H0 in favour of H1

Question 3

p > 0.05 (‘p is greater than 0.05’)

Answer 3

fail to reject H0 [NB Not always quite the same as
‘accept H0’]

Question 4

p < 0.01 implies …

Answer 4

strong evidence to reject H0

Question 5

If thep-value is less than the xxx level then the xxx hypothesis is accepted.

Answer 5

significance / alternative