type II error

English

Noun

type II error (countable and uncountable, plural type II errors)

1. (statistics) Accepting the null hypothesis when the null hypothesis is false.

   Synonyms: β error, beta error, error of the second kind, false negative

Coordinate terms

• type I error

Translations

accepting the null hypothesis when false

Catalan: errors de tipus II m Chinese: Mandarin: 二型錯誤 / 二型错误 (èrxíngcuòwù) Czech: chyba typu II f Dutch: fout van de tweede soort f Estonian: II tüüpi viga Finnish: tyypin II virhe, toisen lajin virhe, hyväksymisvirhe Galician: error do tipo II m German: Fehler zweiter Art m Hungarian: másodfajú hiba (hu) Icelandic: betamistök, fastheldnismistök Japanese: 第二種過誤, β過誤 Korean: 2종 오류 (2jong oryu) Norwegian: Bokmål: type-II-feil m Nynorsk: type-II-feil m Polish: błąd drugiego rodzaju m Romanian: eroare de tip II f Spanish: error de tipo II m

See also

• type II error on Wikipedia.Wikipedia