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 [math]\displaystyle{ P_{FA} }[/math])
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 [math]\displaystyle{ P_{D} }[/math]) is frequently used instead of miss probability given by [math]\displaystyle{ 1-P_{D} }[/math]

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.