Type Two Error (from Internet Glossary of Statistical Terms)
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Type Two Error
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Type I Error
Relationship between α, β, & Power
You have committed a type II error if you have failed to reject the hypothesis tested when a given alternative hypothesis was true.
In a given statistical test the probability of a type II error is equal to the value calculated for β.
