A doctor testing a diagnostic tool for a rare disease wants to minimize the chance that the test will find a patient to be healthy when she is in fact sick (the null hypothesis being that the patient is healthy). The doctor should minimize the probability of:
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This question is on Type I and type II errors and power, part of Hypothesis testing in Statistics.
The two ways a test can be wrong and the probability of detecting a real effect.
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