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Explain the difference between a Type I significance error and a Type Il significance error.

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A Type I error occurs when there really is no difference (association, correlation..) overall, but random sampling caused your data to show a statistically significant difference (association, correlation...). So your conclusion that the two groups are really different (associated, correlated) is an error

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A Type I error occurs when there really is no difference (association, correlation..) overall, but random sampling caused your data to show a statistically significant difference (association, correlation...). So your conclusion that the two groups are really different (associated, correlated) is an error.

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