In dictionaries:
type I error
Rejecting true null hypothesis mistakenly.
type II error
False negative in hypothesis testing.
type 1 error
type 2 error
Type III error
In statistical hypothesis testing, there are various notions of so-called type III errors (or errors of the third kind), and sometimes type IV errors or higher, by analogy with the type I and type II errors of Jerzy Neyman and Egon Pearson.
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