Size (statistics)
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Size (statistics)
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In statistics, the size of a test is the probability of falsely rejecting the null hypothesis. That is, it is the probability of making a type I error. It is denoted by the Greek letter α (alpha). For a simple hypothesis, In the case of a composite null hypothesis, the size is the supremum over all data generating processes that satisfy the null hypotheses. A test is said to have significance level α if its size is less than or equal to α .
In many cases the size and level of a test are equal.
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