Students always wonder why do we reject the null hypothesis when the p-value is less than the level of significance. To understand how hypothesis testing works, students can read more here. So what exactly is type I error?
Level of significance is probability of rejecting the null hypothesis when it is true.
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From the table above, Type I Error is what we refer to as the level of significance.
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