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Re:Machine Learning Crash Course by minimaxir on Thursday March 01, 2018 @01:55PM (#16494955)
Granted, Type II error and confusion matrices are covered in more basic statistical classes, and are indeed important for hypothesis testing.
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Re:Machine Learning Crash Course by maffydub on Thursday March 01, 2018 @02:15PM (#16495158)
I think the point the parent might have been making is that many people (or maybe just me) know "type II error" by the far more self-explanatory name of "false negative".
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