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#Question id: 16892


A test to screen for a serious but curable disease is similar to hypothesis testing, with a null hypothesis of no disease, and an alternative hypothesis of disease. If the null hypothesis is rejected treatment will be given. Otherwise, it will not. Assuming the treatment does not have serious side effects, in this scenario it is better to increase the probability of:

#Section 3: Mathematics and Quantitative Ecology
  1. making a Type 1 error, providing treatment when it is not needed.
  2. making a Type 1 error, not providing treatment when it is needed.
  3. making a Type 2 error, providing treatment when it is not needed.
  4. making a Type 2 error, not providing treatment when it is needed.