STATISTICA: De Overschrijdingskans

S. T. Bok

Statistica Neerlandica, 1946, vol. 1, issue 2, 102-107

Abstract: If we want to check a hypothesis by numbers, obtained from measuring or from counting in a random sample, practically always a difference will be found between these numbers and those, derived from that hypothesis‐Such a difference may be caused by faults in the hypothesis or by factors which we do not want to analyse such as faults in the measuring or the influence of the sampling or influences acting together with the one regarded in our hypothesis. The theory of statistics shows a way to estimate the chance that such another cause would result into a difference equal to or large than the one actually found. If in a given case this “chance of surpassing” is found to be small, we have to reject the hypothesis concerned. The smaller this chance is the larger is the likelihood of that rejection; it is the estimate of the likelihood of each statistical conclusion.

Date: 1946
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