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
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|Null hypothesis
|Noise only hypothesis
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|Alternative hypothesis
|Signal + noise hypothesis
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|Critical region
|Signal present decision region
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|Type I error
|False alarm (FA) (noted as
)
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|Type II error
| Miss
|}>
In other engineering fields, particularly mechanical engineering
, uncertainty analysis examines systematic and random components of variations in measurements associated with physical experiments.
Statistical signal processing
Statistical signal processing is an area of Applied Mathematics and Signal Processing that treats signals as stochastic processes, dealing with their statistical properties...
studies instead of typical statistician's terms.
! Electrical engineering
|-
|Null hypothesis
Null hypothesis
The practice of science involves formulating and testing hypotheses, assertions that are capable of being proven false using a test of observed data. The null hypothesis typically corresponds to a general or default position...
|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
|}>
In other engineering fields, particularly mechanical engineering
Mechanical engineering
Mechanical engineering is a discipline of engineering that applies the principles of physics and materials science for analysis, design, manufacturing, and maintenance of mechanical systems. It is the branch of engineering that involves the production and usage of heat and mechanical power for the...
, uncertainty analysis examines systematic and random components of variations in measurements associated with physical experiments.