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Alpha error or beta?
Message posted by Dr Pooja (via 210.214.101.17) on December 20, 2001 at 2:14 AM (ET)
sampling error can be classified as alpha, beta , gamma or delta error...
Sorry if it sounds too simple to answer I am really new to statistics!
Thanks
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Re: Alpha error or beta?
Message posted by JG (via 128.8.23.221) on December 20, 2001 at 5:28 PM (ET)
alpha means judged guily though innocent, beta judged innocent though guilty, etc.
Re: Alpha error or beta?
Message posted by Dr Pooja (via 210.214.101.106) on December 20, 2001 at 7:34 PM (ET)
I came to know taht alpha is same as type 1 error and beta is type 2 error.
Can you please tell me what is gamma error and delta error?
Re: Alpha error or beta?
Message posted by JG (via 128.8.23.6) on December 21, 2001 at 1:45 AM (ET)
I have not heard this before. In my personal terminology, gamma error is solving the wrong problem. I know that in acceptance sampling, they distiguish between procucer's error and consumer's error. That is alpha is the PROBABILITY of a Type I error, etc. and so we can have producer's alpha and consumer's alpha, etc.
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