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Type II error
noun
- the error made in the statistical testing of a hypothesis by accepting the null hypothesis when it is actually false.
type II error
noun
- statistics the error of not rejecting the null hypothesis when it is false. The probability of avoiding such an error is the power of the test and is a function of the alternative hypothesis
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All government programs face a tradeoff between Type I and Type II error--between false positives and false negatives.
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