To Err is Human: What are Type I and II Errors?

As much as researchers, journals, and newspapers might like to think otherwise, statistics is definitely not a fool-proof science. Statistics is a game of probability, and we can never know for certain whether our statistical conclusions are correct. Whenever there is uncertainty, there is the possibility of making an error. In statistics, there are two types of statistical conclusion errors … Continue reading To Err is Human: What are Type I and II Errors?