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  2. Degree of truth - Wikipedia

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    Degrees of truth is an important concept in law. The term is an older concept than conditional probability. Instead of determining the objective probability, only a subjective assessment is defined. [1] [page needed] Especially for novices in the field, the chance for confusion is high. They are highly likely to confound the concept of ...

  3. Mathematical fallacy - Wikipedia

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    In mathematics, certain kinds of mistaken proof are often exhibited, and sometimes collected, as illustrations of a concept called mathematical fallacy.There is a distinction between a simple mistake and a mathematical fallacy in a proof, in that a mistake in a proof leads to an invalid proof while in the best-known examples of mathematical fallacies there is some element of concealment or ...

  4. False positive rate - Wikipedia

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    The choice of a significance level may thus be somewhat arbitrary (i.e. setting 10% (0.1), 5% (0.05), 1% (0.01) etc.) As opposed to that, the false positive rate is associated with a post-prior result, which is the expected number of false positives divided by the total number of hypotheses under the real combination of true and non-true null ...

  5. Misuse of statistics - Wikipedia

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    Since the required confidence interval to establish a relationship between two parameters is usually chosen to be 95% (meaning that there is a 95% chance that the relationship observed is not due to random chance), there is thus a 5% chance of finding a correlation between any two sets of completely random variables. Given that data dredging ...

  6. Holm–Bonferroni method - Wikipedia

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    The simple Bonferroni correction rejects only null hypotheses with p-value less than or equal to , in order to ensure that the FWER, i.e., the risk of rejecting one or more true null hypotheses (i.e., of committing one or more type I errors) is at most . The cost of this protection against type I errors is an increased risk of failing to reject ...

  7. Misrepresentation - Wikipedia

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    In common law jurisdictions, a misrepresentation is a false or misleading [1] statement of fact made during negotiations by one party to another, the statement then inducing that other party to enter into a contract. [2] [3] The misled party may normally rescind the contract, and sometimes may be awarded damages as well (or instead of rescission).

  8. Degrees of freedom (statistics) - Wikipedia

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    The sum of the residuals (unlike the sum of the errors) is necessarily 0. If one knows the values of any n − 1 of the residuals, one can thus find the last one. That means they are constrained to lie in a space of dimension n − 1. One says that there are n − 1 degrees of freedom for errors.

  9. Boolean satisfiability problem - Wikipedia

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    The result of R is TRUE (1) if exactly one of its arguments is TRUE, and FALSE (0) otherwise. All 8 combinations of values for x , y , z are examined, one per line. The fresh variables a ,..., f can be chosen to satisfy all clauses (exactly one green argument for each R ) in all lines except the first, where x ∨ y ∨ z is FALSE.