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p-value

Term · Oncology and biomedicine · MLC-T-ONC-007105

A term in statistics. It helps show whether a difference found between groups that are being compared is due to chance. A small p-value usually means that the difference between groups is not due to chance alone, but is due to some other factor, such as a treatment one of the groups received. A large p-value usually means that the difference between groups is probably due to chance alone.

Table 1. Record
IdentifierMLC-T-ONC-007105
FieldOncology and biomedicine
ReferencesNCI Dictionary of Cancer Terms
Record as JSON 
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  "term": "p-value",
  "field": "Oncology and biomedicine",
  "definition": "A term in statistics. It helps show whether a difference found between groups that are being compared is due to chance. A small p-value usually means that the difference between groups is not due to chance alone, but is due to some other factor, such as a treatment one of the groups received. A large p-value usually means that the difference between groups is probably due to chance alone.",
  "references": [
    "NCI Dictionary of Cancer Terms"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/oncology/p-value/"
}

Record 13,898 of 17,721 in Oncology and biomedicine terminology (MLC-0111). Request the full dataset.