Statisticians' and engineers' cross-reference of statistical terms

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The following terms are used by electrical engineers in statistical signal processing studies instead of typical statiticans' terms.

Null hypothesis Noise only hypothesis
Alternative hypothesis Signal + noise hypothesis
Critical region Signal present decision region
Type I error False alarm (FA) (noted as PFA)
Type II error Miss [1]

[edit] Reference

  1. S.M. Kay, Fundamentals of Statistical Signal Processing, ISBN 0-13-504135-X.

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ The detection probability (noted as PD) is frequently used instead of miss probability given by 1 − PD
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