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  2. Probability of error - Wikipedia

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    For a Type I error, it is shown as α (alpha) and is known as the size of the test and is 1 minus the specificity of the test. This quantity is sometimes referred to as the confidence of the test, or the level of significance (LOS) of the test. For a Type II error, it is shown as β (beta) and is 1 minus the power or 1 minus the sensitivity of ...

  3. 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.

  4. Propagation of uncertainty - Wikipedia

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    When the errors on x are uncorrelated, the general expression simplifies to =, where = is the variance of k-th element of the x vector. Note that even though the errors on x may be uncorrelated, the errors on f are in general correlated; in other words, even if is a diagonal matrix, is in general a full matrix.

  5. Family-wise error rate - Wikipedia

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    Hochberg's step-up procedure (1988) is performed using the following steps: [7] Start by ordering the p-values (from lowest to highest) () … and let the associated hypotheses be …

  6. Factor analysis - Wikipedia

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    The observed variables are modelled as linear combinations of the potential factors plus "error" terms, hence factor analysis can be thought of as a special case of errors-in-variables models. [1] Simply put, the factor loading of a variable quantifies the extent to which the variable is related to a given factor. [2] A common rationale behind ...

  7. Standard error - Wikipedia

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    For a value that is sampled with an unbiased normally distributed error, the above depicts the proportion of samples that would fall between 0, 1, 2, and 3 standard deviations above and below the actual value.

  8. Observational error - Wikipedia

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    When either randomness or uncertainty modeled by probability theory is attributed to such errors, they are "errors" in the sense in which that term is used in statistics; see errors and residuals in statistics.

  9. False positives and false negatives - Wikipedia

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    The specificity of the test is equal to 1 minus the false positive rate. In statistical hypothesis testing, this fraction is given the Greek letter α, and 1 − α is defined as the specificity of the test. Increasing the specificity of the test lowers the probability of type I errors, but may raise the probability of type II errors (false ...