Medicaltestsfordiagnosingconditionssuchasbreastcancerarefallible,justlikedecisions in significancetests.Identify(H0 true, H0 false) withdisease(absent,present),and(Reject H0, Donotreject H0) withdiagnostictest(positive,negative).Inthiscontext,explainthe difference betweenTypeIandTypeIIerrors,andexplainwhydecreasing P(TypeIerror) increases P(TypeIIerror).
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Medicaltestsfordiagnosingconditionssuchasbreastcancerarefallible,justlikedecisions in significancetests.Identify(H0 true, H0 false) withdisease(absent,present),and(Reject H0, Donotreject H0) withdiagnostictest(positive,negative).Inthiscontext,explainthe difference betweenTypeIandTypeIIerrors,andexplainwhydecreasing P(TypeIerror)
increases P(TypeIIerror).
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Foundations Of Statistics For Data Scientists With R And Python
ISBN: 9780367748456
1st Edition
Authors: Alan Agresti
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