Statisticians' and engineers' cross-reference of statistical terms

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 ) Type II error Miss The detection probability (noted as ) is frequently used instead of miss probability given by

In other engineering fields, particularly mechanical engineering, uncertainty analysis examines systematic and random components of variations in measurements associated with physical experiments.

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References S.M. Kay, Fundamentals of Statistical Signal Processing, . H. Coleman and W. G. Steele, Experimentation and uncertainty analysis for engineers, .