(noun) a liquid or semi-liquid edible dressing or condiment served as an accompaniment to or an ingredient in a meat, dessert, or other food: pizza sauce, steak sauce, cranberry sauce, chocolate sauce, etc., or (verb) to add said sauce to something.
All hypothesis tests ultimately use a p-value to weigh the strength of the evidence (what the data are telling you about the population). The p-value is a number between 0 and 1 and interpreted in the following way: A small p-value (typically â¤ 0.05) indicates strong evidence against the null hypothesis, so you reject the null hypothesis.
In theory, the p value is a continuous measure of evidence, but in practice it is typi-cally trichotomized approximately into highly significant, marginally significant, and not statistically significant at conventional levels, with cutoffs at pâ¤0.01, pâ¤0.05 and p>0.10 (Gelman, 2012: 2). According to Cramer and Howitt (2004),