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FPGEE Foreign Pharmacy

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As you are reading a technical paper, you notice that the writers have included the statement that within a specific data set, p<0.001. How would you interpret the p value?
  1. The data has no significance. The p-value is very small.
  2. The data is highly significant. The p-value is very small.
  3. The data is of unknown significance and may be due to random chance.
  4. The p-value is positive and therefore insignificant.
Explanation
Answer: B − A smaller p value indicates there is a greater probability that the differences measured between the control and the test group are statistically significant and not based on a random process. A p-value > 0.05 is not considered significant.
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