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Type I and II Errors

There are two kinds of errors that can be made in significance testing: (1) a true null hypothesis can be incorrectly rejected and (2) a false null hypothesis can fail to be rejected. The former error is called a Type I error and the latter error is called a Type II error. These two types of errors are defined in the table.

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Type I and II Errors

There are two kinds of errors that can be made in significance testing: (1) a true null hypothesis can be incorrectly rejected and (2) a false null hypothesis can fail to be rejected. The former error is called a Type I error and the latter error is called a Type II error. These two types of errors are defined in the table.

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Therearetwokindsoferrorsthatcanbemadeinsignificancetesting:(1)a
truenullhypothesiscanbeincorrectlyrejectedand(2)afalsenullhypothesis
canfailtoberejected.TheformererroriscalledaTypeIerrorandthelatter
erroriscalledaTypeIIerror.Thesetwotypesoferrorsaredefinedinthe
table.

StatisticalDecision

TrueStateoftheNullHypothesis
H0True

H0False

RejectH0

TypeIerror

Correct

DonotRejectH0

Correct

TypeIIerror

TheprobabilityofaTypeIerrorisdesignatedbytheGreekletteralpha()
andiscalledtheTypeIerrorratetheprobabilityofaTypeIIerror(theType
IIerrorrate)isdesignatedbytheGreekletterbeta().ATypeIIerroris
onlyanerrorinthesensethatanopportunitytorejectthenullhypothesis
correctlywaslost.Itisnotanerrorinthesensethatanincorrectconclusion
wasdrawnsincenoconclusionisdrawnwhenthenullhypothesisisnot
rejected.

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