| Evidence for two simple hypothesized values of θ
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| Error favoring when is true |
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| Strong evidence |
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| Intervalsa (e.g., mean of a normal distribution) |
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| Other errors to minimize for study planning |
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| Relationships |
Strong evidence, k, and error are decoupled |
Strong evidence, and error are coupled |
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aThere is a relationship, beyond the normal distribution, between exact confidence intervals and likelihood intervals but confidence intervals are also coupled with the Type I error probability. |
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bThe Type II error, β, is analogous to M
1(n, k) + W
1(n, k) but for fixed α, n. Power (1 − β) is defined for a fixed α, therefore, although similar in spirit, is always greater than the probability of strong evidence at conventional Type I error levels and therefore the two represent different quantities. There is no concept of controlling weak evidence in the Frequentist paradigm. |