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Alpha is not the false alarm rate


Prior (base rate) [......] Power (true positive rate) [......] Alpha (false positive rate)


Differences between alpha and the false alarm rate

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Notes
Details about this activity can be found in my 2019 Teaching of Psychology article, "Alpha is not the false alarm rate: An activity to dispel a common statistical misconception."
​Please email me (Burt Thompson) if you have questions or comments.

The graphs are made with jQuery (jquery.com) and Flot (flotcharts.org).