Type I error

Type I error
The statistical error (said to be "of the first kind" or alpha error) made in testing an hypothesis when it is concluded that a treatment or intervention is effective when it really is not. Sometimes referred to as a false positive.

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in a hypothesis test, the rejection of the null hypothesis when it is true; the probability of a Type I error (the significance level) is denoted by α.

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