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Unit 3: Inference for Categorical Data: Proportions

Potential Errors When Performing Tests

Identify and describe Type I and Type II errors in context, find their probabilities from alpha and power, and explain what changes the power of a test.

Topic 3.8 · 11 min read

This lesson comes with the AP Statistics plan

In this lesson

  1. 01Two ways to be wrong
  2. 02The probability of each error
  3. 03What changes the power
  4. 04Worked examples
  5. 05Where students lose points
  6. 06On the exam

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