Error Probabilities in Educational and Psychological Research

Rainer Westermann and Willi Hager

Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 1986, vol. 11, issue 2, 117-146

Abstract: The well-known problem of cumulating error probabilities is reconsidered from a general epistemological perspective, namely, the concepts of severity (Popper) and of fairness of tests. Applying these concepts to hypothesis-testing research leads to a reevaluation of the relative importance of the probabilities of Type 1 and Type 2 errors connected with those statistical hypotheses that have been derived from the substantive ones. It is shown that not only Type 1 but also Type 2 errors can cumulate. This cumulation is discussed for various basic types of empirical situations in which substantive hypotheses are examined by means of statistical ones. A new adjustment strategy based on the Dunn-Bonferroni inequality for planned tests is proposed and applied to some empirical examples.

Keywords: Substantive and statistical hypotheses; family of tests; error probabilities; rules for adjustment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1986
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DOI: 10.3102/10769986011002117

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