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Math Professor Ben Recht and I Discuss P-values and Confidence Intervals

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Statistical Significance and Sample Size Influence

The chapter explores the relationship between statistical significance, sample size, and Z-scores in medical trials. It discusses the impact of standard deviations on data points' distance from the mean in a normal distribution and the calculation of P-values based on average, standard deviation, and tail probabilities.

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