Hey openstudy owls, I was wonderinf if someone could give me a 5 sentence explanation on this statistics senario. Just to get me started; I am a bit stuck on this one. Thanks much!

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Hey openstudy owls, I was wonderinf if someone could give me a 5 sentence explanation on this statistics senario.  Just to get me started; I am a bit stuck on this one.  Thanks much!

theopenstudyowl · Answer

A scientist clams to have a method for predicting earthquakes. Over the past two years she's successfully predicted the locations of the epicenters (to within a 100-kilometer radius), the times (± 8 hours), and the magnitudes (± 3 on the Richter scale) of over 50 earthquakes around the world. Do you think this is an impressive record? Why or why not? How would you go about calculating a P-value for this record, what kind of data would you need to calculate the value, and how low a P-value would you need to reject the hypothesis that the record of successful predictions was due to chance alone?

theopenstudyowl · Answer

those question marks should be plus or minus

doc.brown · Answer

What's a P-value?

anonymous · Answer

I am not sure if you can write it out because your just suppose to help but not to give the answer! It says it in the code :)

theopenstudyowl · Answer

@doc.brown  it is similiar to a z score I believe