By Samuel L. Myers, Jr. (Click here to view the entire P&R issue) Policy analysts talk of what William Dunn calls "The Error of the Third Type." Unlike Type I and Type II errors, well known to students of statistics, errors of the third type refer not to rejecting or accepting null hypotheses when they are true or false. These errors refer to finding the right … [Read more...] about “The Error of the Third Type” Samuel L. Myers, Jr. (January-February 1995 P&R Issue)
