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For a coin flip, heads or tails each has a probability of occurring 50% of the time (p = 0.50), so it would be plotted on a chart ... values. Continuous uniform distributions have infinite ...

Open any science journal, for example, and you’ll find papers liberally sprinkled with P values ... the frequentist paradigm by having a probability distribution with predictable properties ...

I was wrong. To be clear, everyone I spoke with at METRICS could tell me the technical definition of a p-value — the probability of getting results at least as extreme as the ones you observed ...