I sometimes use this fun interview question for aspiring data scientists: How are p-values distributed assuming the null hypothesis is true? I’ve heard a lot of reasonable answers, including: All very reasonable and intuitive answers which I would probably, at some point, have given myself. They’re also all wrong. The (perhaps surprising) answer is that […] The post How Are P-values Distributed Under The Null? first appeared on David's blog.

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