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 PFA)
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.

Notes

  1. The detection probability (noted as PD) is frequently used instead of miss probability given by 1PD

References

  1. S.M. Kay, Fundamentals of Statistical Signal Processing, ISBN 0-13-504135-X.
  2. H. Coleman and W. G. Steele, Experimentation and uncertainty analysis for engineers, ISBN 0-471-12146-0.