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#Unit 13. Methods in Biology

type I is stating something which is not present or a false hit.

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A type I error is often called a false positive (an event that shows that a given condition is present when it is absent).

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Example of type I error - In words of community tales, a person may see the bear when there is none (raising a false alarm) where the null hypothesis (H₀) contains the statement: “There is no bear”.

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#Unit 13. Methods in Biology

The type I error significance level or rate level is the probability of refusing the null hypothesis given that it is true.

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It is represented by Greek letter α (alpha) and is also known as alpha level.

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Usually, the significance level or the probability of type i error is set to 0.05(5%), assuming that it is satisfactory to have a 5% probability of inaccurately rejecting the null hypothesis.