Type I error

noun

the error made in the statistical testing of a hypothesis by rejecting the null hypothesis when it is actually true.

Origin of Type I error

First recorded in 1960–65

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British Dictionary definitions for type i error

type I error

noun

statistics the error of rejecting the null hypothesis when it is true, the probability of which is the significance level of a result

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