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  2. Use error - Wikipedia

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    The URM Model [14] characterizes use errors in terms of the user's failure to manage a system deficiency. Six categories of use errors are described in a URM document: Expected faults with risky results; Expected faults with unexpected results; Expected user errors in identifying risky situations (this study); User Errors in handling expected ...

  3. User error - Wikipedia

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    These phrases are used as a humorous [7] way to describe user errors. A highly popularized example of this is a user mistaking their CD-ROM tray for a cup holder, or a user looking for the "any key". However, any variety of stupidity or ignorance-induced problems can be described as user errors.

  4. Type III error - Wikipedia

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    In statistical hypothesis testing, there are various notions of so-called type III errors (or errors of the third kind), and sometimes type IV errors or higher, by analogy with the type I and type II errors of Jerzy Neyman and Egon Pearson. Fundamentally, type III errors occur when researchers provide the right answer to the wrong question, i.e ...

  5. Influence diagrams approach - Wikipedia

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    The IDA methodology is conducted in a series of 10 steps as follows: 1. Describe all relevant conditioning events Experts who have sufficient knowledge of the situation under evaluation form a group; in depth knowledge is essential for the technique to be used to its optimal potential. The chosen individuals include a range of experts ...

  6. Type I and type II errors - Wikipedia

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    In statistical hypothesis testing, a type I error, or a false positive, is the rejection of the null hypothesis when it is actually true. A type II error, or a false negative, is the failure to reject a null hypothesis that is actually false. [1] Type I error: an innocent person may be convicted. Type II error: a guilty person may be not convicted.

  7. Propagation of uncertainty - Wikipedia

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    Any non-linear differentiable function, (,), of two variables, and , can be expanded as + +. If we take the variance on both sides and use the formula [11] for the variance of a linear combination of variables ⁡ (+) = ⁡ + ⁡ + ⁡ (,), then we obtain | | + | | +, where is the standard deviation of the function , is the standard deviation of , is the standard deviation of and = is the ...

  8. Data collection - Wikipedia

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    The risk of failing to identify problems and errors in the research process is often caused by poorly written guidelines. Listed are several examples of such failures: Uncertainty of timing, methods and identification of the responsible person; Partial listing of items needed to be collected

  9. User research - Wikipedia

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    User research also helps to uncover problems faced by users when they interact with a product and turn them into actionable insights. User research is beneficial in all stages of product development from ideation to market release. [7] Mike Kuniavsky further notes that it is "the process of understanding the impact of design on an audience."