统计学知识(一错误和二类错误).docVIP

Type I and type II errors In statistics, the terms Type I error (also, α error, or false positive) and type II error (β error, or a false negative) are used to describe possible errors made in a statistical decision process. In 1928, Jerzy Neyman (1894-1981) and Egon Pearson (1895-1980), both eminent statisticians, discussed the problems associated with deciding whether or not a particular sample may be judged as likely to have been randomly drawn from a certain population (1928/1967, p.1): and identified two sources of error, namely: (α) the error of rejecting a correct null hypothesis, and