Statisticians' and engineers' cross-reference of statistical terms
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The following terms are used by electrical engineers in statistical signal processing studies instead of typical statistician's terms.
| Statistics | Electrical engineering |
|---|---|
| Null hypothesis | Noise only hypothesis |
| Alternative hypothesis | Signal + noise hypothesis |
| Critical region | Signal present decision region |
| Type I error | False alarm (FA) (noted as  ) |
| Type II error | Miss [1] |
In other engineering fields, particularly mechanical engineering, uncertainty analysis examines systematic and random components of variations in measurements associated with physical experiments.
References
- S.M. Kay, Fundamentals of Statistical Signal Processing, ISBN 0-13-504135-X.
- H. Coleman and W. G. Steele, Experimentation and uncertainty analysis for engineers, ISBN 0-471-12146-0.
Notes
- ↑ The detection probability (noted as
) is frequently used instead of miss probability given by 
