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Errors In Hypothesis tests

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1 Errors In Hypothesis tests
Making Errors

2 What are they? Type 1 Errors: The null hypothesis is true, but we mistakenly reject it. Type II Errors: The null hypothesis is false, but we fail to reject it.

3 In Medical disease testing
The null hypothesis is usually the assumption that a person is healthy The alternative is that he or she has the disease we’re testing. Type I error is a false positive: A healthy person is diagnosed with the disease. Type II error, in which an infected person is diagnosed as disease free, is a false negative.

4 In Jury Trial: Type I error: Jury convicts an innocent person.
Type II error: The jury fails to convict a guilty person.

5 Visual

6 With the bell curve

7 With the bell curve


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