In article <8uttqd$v15$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Kresten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
#> >What is a type III statistical error?
Howard Raiffa (Decision Analysis, footnote, p. 264) agrees that errors
of the third kind are "solving the wrong problem", and attributes this
to John Tukey. He also nominates for error of the fourth kind "solving
the right problem too late".
Bill
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