When You Detect a Friend in a Crowd Because of His

question 14

Short Answer

When you detect a friend in a crowd because of his yellow coat among people wearing black coats, you have performed a feature search. If no such distinctive feature had "popped out," you would have had to perform a _______ search, looking for multiple features such as height, gender, and hair color.

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Definitions:

Type I Error

The error of rejecting a true null hypothesis, also known as a false positive.

Alpha

Often denoted as α, it is a significance level used in hypothesis testing, representing the probability of rejecting a true null hypothesis.

Alpha

A term often associated with the significance level in hypothesis testing, indicating the probability of rejecting a true null hypothesis.

Type II Error

The error occurs when the null hypothesis is not rejected when it is actually false.