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noun
the error made in the statistical testing of a hypothesis by rejecting the null hypothesis when it is actually true.
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Origin of Type I error
First recorded in 1960â65
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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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