Calculating Power and the Probability of a Type II Error (A One-Tailed Example)
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- Опубликовано: 31 янв 2013
- An example of calculating power and the probability of a Type II error (beta), in the context of a Z test for one mean. Much of the underlying logic holds for other types of tests as well.
If you are looking for an example involving a two-tailed test, I have a video with an example of calculating power and the probability of a Type II error for a two-tailed Z test at • Calculating Power and ... .
You taught me in 5 minutes what my stats lecturer couldn't make me understand in 2 years of doing power. Legend
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I got to agree! We got this obfuscated definition of the theta-power-function - it's great for plug-and-calculate, don't get me wrong, but I didn't get what was going on at all.
@@jbstatistics I read too much on internet and also followed Montgomery book to understand how alpha and beta are inversely related to each other, but didn't understand and visualize it. You explained the things in awesome way. The world requires people like you to teach the concept instead of book worm definition. Hats off man, you did amazing job.
Thank you so much. Don't know why hardly anyone can explain type 1 and 2 errors so that it makes any sense. You did it very well... thank you again!!
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I'm a high school AP stats teacher, and your video is simply terrific. Was looking for something to share with my kids, who find errors and power to be mind bending. This is it! Thanks!
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You are seriously my hero for today. I was so confused on this topic until I watched just two of your videos. Everything makes much more sense now. Thank you so much JB.
I don't do a two-tailed example for a couple of reasons. But the logic is very similar to that used in this video. The difference is that you will have two rejection regions, so you will need to find two tail areas (one will be small), and add these areas.
Published in 2013 and yet this triumphs over other videos relating to this subject! As a visual learner, this was incredibly useful. Thank you!
Thanks for the kind words!
You are very welcome Yubaraj! I'm glad you found this video helpful. Cheers.
Best explanation on Type II error and Power i've ever seen. Just brilliant. Thanks.
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The graph helped tremendously. I was staring at a homework question for over 30 minutes now but figure it out since the professor never cared to explain. Thanks so much!!
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You are very welcome Ben! I'm glad to be of help. Cheers.
Was pondering for a long time how to visualise the power of a test....best explanation really 💥💥
This was brilliantly explained! Why can't you be my teacher? Thank you so much for a great job!
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To find the power you need to find two areas (corresponding to the two tails) and add them. One area (the one on the opposite side of the true value of mu) will be small. The other area (the one on the same side as the true value of mu) will be bigger. I know people struggle with this sometimes, so I'll get a video up at some point (but probably not soon enough for your purposes). Cheers.
You are more effective than my Professor when it comes to teaching Statistics. Please upload more videos on ANOVA and regression.
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This video is absolutely precious. Couldn't be clearer.
Very clear explanation. Helped me understand this topic when my textbook was absolutely useless. Thank you!
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Thank you so much for your nice videos! What software and equipment are you using? Considering doing something similar in courses I take, and I find your way of explaining very easy to understand and follow.
I'm up in Canada (in Guelph -- near Toronto), but consider this a virtual handshake. I'm glad to be of help.
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Thank you so much, I love the pacing of this video, and it totally cleared me up on calculations for power before my ap exam!!!
You are very welcome. Best of luck on your exam!
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I'm glad to be of help. Best of luck on your test.
This is such a good explanation. Thank you sir.
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+Zhen Li Yes. I hope I didn't say something offensive :)
Not at all. I was just surprised :)
You very clearly explained the Power and the probability of a Type II error.
The way you taught this is really great
Thank you so much for this great explanation of Type II error and its calculation. I have not understood it before I watched this video.
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You are saving lives here, mate, thank you!
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So in order to calculate type two error first we assume what the real value is then set up the new condition around it.. It was very simple with thinking like that. Thank you for video upen upped my horizon.
Great video. I finally figured out how to calculate type 2 error as well as power. Thank you!
Thanks Cao! I'm glad you found this video helpful!
It's the area to the right of 0.66 under the standard normal curve, which can be found using software or a standard normal table.
Thank you! Have you published any other video on "choosing the right sample size for testing mu"?
You just saved my ass on this test. I owe you one
I'm glad to be of help Austin.
This explains things much better than my professor, thanks.
thank you so much for explaining it so well!! i was so confused before, hope to do well on my test tomorrow :))
You are very welcome. I hope your test went well!
Saved my soul with this video! Thanks
I feel like such a stats wizard now, thank you so much!
i know right? it makes so much sense
Hello thank you for your video, I was just wondering if the alternative hypothesis is greater (the opposite of the example you just used) does that mean that the the test statistic calculation we get is a type two error?
this is such a clear and lucid explanation of a potentially thorny topic. Kudos jbstatistics! Im using you a lot to complement and in lieu of my textbook when the textbook , sadly, fails me in terms of the required clarity and simplicity my less than mathematically gifted mind requires (I'm doing a psychology BA; compulsory statistics module atm!)
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If we kept the same hypotheses as given in this video, then rejecting the null hypothesis for values of the true mean greater than 50 wouldn't be considered the correct decision, and we wouldn't be calculating power in those cases.
If the alternative hypothesis was mu > 50 instead of mu < 50, and we wish to calculate power for values of mu greater than 50, then the plots would simply be a mirror image of those in this video. I have another video of a power calculation in this setting.
I believe kbwebtech1 meant a two-tailed test (an alternative hypothesis of mu not equal to 50), where the true value of mu is 75. It looks like I misfired in my earlier response; I meant a true value of mu equal to 75.
I really bound to appreciate the work..god bless...please update few videos using advance statistical tools such as SAS or SPSS..or Excel
That is an area under the standard normal curve. It is found using software or a standard normal table. Cheers.
Love when he said "power is the probability of rejecting the null when it is false, that is a good thing." My prof explained it totally opposite of that and I struggled to clarify it in my mind. Love the visuals in this video too.
Not quite. If the alternative hypothesis is greater than 50, then the rejection region would change (instead of rejecting H_0 when x bar is less than 45.31, as we do in the video, we'd reject H_0 when x bar is greater than 50 + 21/sqrt(36)*1.34 = 54.69). To find the power (if the alternative was greater than), we'd find P(X bar > 54.69), and to find the probability of a Type II error we'd find P(X bar < 54.69) (using the appropriate values of mu, n, and sigma).
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Wonderful video! I am so confused until viewing your video. You are very talent in teaching. Can you make some video in Analysis of Variance, Randommized Block, Latin Squares... Thanks.
The power of the test is the probability of rejecting the null hypothesis, given it is false (in this case, given mu = 43). So the power is not calculated by finding areas under the distribution of the sample mean when the null hypothesis is true (mu = 50), but by finding areas under the distribution of the sample mean when the null hypothesis is false (mu = 43). That's why the power was an area under the blue curve (mu=43) in the video, and not an area under the white curve (mu=50).
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crystal clear. excellent presentation
Amazing video! Better than my lecturer!
Thanks for making the video! A quick question - since we don't actually know the population mean, how does one calculate the power of the test?
this video saved my life
I'm glad I could help!
Well explained and useful. Thanks JB Stats.
do you have a video that does this using t-statistic?
thanks for the excellent video. esp, the type 2 error calculation was a life saver!!!!
Thanks for the helpful video and clear explanation. Just a question: at 1:10, since we are interested in the left part only, why didn't you divide the alpha by 2 for finding the z? Thanks!
u got the answer yet?
Because it’s a one-tailed test? No point in dividing in two.
This is super helpful. Thank you!!
Wow, this video is fantastic. Can't thank you enough my friend.
You are very welcome. Thanks for the compliment!
We need to find the value of a standard normal random variable that has an area to the left of 0.09. To 2 decimal places, that value is -1.34. This can be found using software or the standard normal table. I go through how to use the standard normal table for this type of problem in "Finding percentiles using the standard normal table".
Note that Type 1 and Type 2 errors are CONDITIONAL probabilities - this really helped make things make sense for me
Thank you very very very much...Awesome explanation.
Why didn't you have to subtract the area to right of 45.31 ( .255) from 1 making beta .745 if we were testing P ( Z> 45.31) vsP( Z
Thank you. I understand the concepts better now. But I cannot determine sample size corresponding to particular power. Can you please give me some hints how should I solve the following problem:
You want to test whether a coin is fair at significance level 10%. What is (approximately) the minimum number of tosses that is required such that the probability of concluding that the coin is not fair is at least 90% when the true probability of Tails is 60%?
thanks in advance
Excellent explanation. My material did not plot the curves. This is great to visualize the concepts. Thank you!
You are very welcome! Without the visualization it's a little tricky to think about.
jbstatistics That's first time I received an answer for a comment on RUclips rsrs. Thanks. But let me ask you someting, how would you sketch the curves if the problem involvend a hypothesis testing on a proportion (p) - instead of the mean ("Mu") ? Where would you center the curve? It would be also bell shaped, right? Thanks, again!
@@pedrodelfino9493 If we were speaking about a large sample Z test on a population proportion, then yes, it would be a very similar type of thing. There would be one normal curve centred at the hypothesized value of p, and another centred at the true value. We'd have to be a touch careful though, as the variances would differ (since the variance of p hat depends on the true value of p).
Great video! What program did you use for this video? I'm wondering if I could use it teach my Elementary Stats class.
The base is a Latex/Beamer presentation. I annotate using Skim, and record and edit using Screenflow. Cheers.
Bro this was the best video Ive seen in my life
Power calcs are a little dry, so this one isn't my fave, but I'm glad to be of help!
Great video. You explained it just the way my mind interprets it.
How do you get the z value of -1.34 on a calculator (TI-84)
How to calculate power of a test for composite hypotheses? How does the "power.t.test" function in R calculate the power without asking for actual value of parameter?
Well presented and explained
Thanks for the compliment!
What do you say for this question? We dont know std and mean of population. We want to make a Hypothesis test about whether first sample value is same with mean value of 50 samples.
For this test, i reckon to use mean and std of samples. Mü-zero will be mean of 50 samples and sigma will be std of 50 samples. X bar will be the first sample value according to formulation z score. Is this method true?
You can also do this one. 1-B= P(z>(zc-ztest)).. This will work in left tailed, right tailed, or even two tailed test.
I only needed a small section of this video to tell me what neither my textbook or my classes could
Ok Thank you and would we have two regions to test? Because I have no idea how the process would work.
Absolutely wonderful visualisation scaffold. A quick question (6.55 min): how did you conclude while calculating probability of type 2 error that sigma is 21 even for the population with a mu of 43?
Great video. One question - given the small sample size of 36, interested to know why the test statistic in your video is assumed to be distributed as standard normal, rather than as Students t?
In this video I've assumed the population standard deviation to be known, and thus the appropriate test statistic is the Z statistic. (If the population standard deviation is known, then Z=(X bar - mu_0)/(sigma/sqrt(n)) is the appropriate test statistic. If the null hypothesis and assumptions are true, this Z test statistic has the standard normal distribution.)
In the real world we don't know sigma, so we use the t test, but power calculations for t tests are more complicated (involving the noncentral t distribution). I introduce power calculations using the Z test, because it's simpler and more understandable, and I bring it in at a point in the course where we have not yet discussed t tests.
jbstatistics Great, that makes sense. Thanks for taking the time to reply.
I have a question , you are assuming here the population parameter (miu) to be something to calculate the type 2 error ..But in empirical studies we generally do not know the population mean .does that mean type 2 error can not be computed for real empirical studies?
Wait, so power can be calculated using either
1 - P(Fail to reject H0 | real mu mu0)
OR
P(reject H0 | real mu mu0)
??
Rejecting Ho and not rejecting Ho are complementary events, so, under the same underlying conditions P(Reject Ho) = 1-P(Do not reject Ho). I work it out both ways in this video because when some students see a power question they automatically jump to Power = 1-Beta, and I think that's not a great way to think about it.
Hi there I was wondering if someone could help me understsand, I get it up untill the point of 7;40, when we set up 45.31-43/21/SQ(36) where is Z > 0.66 coming from? and where is 0.255 coming from ? thanks!
these videos are fantastic
Thanks Alex!
Awesome explanation !
Thanks!
Thank u so much for simplifying it
While calculating the power ( 1 - beta) for meu = 50 with the alternate hypothesis for meu = 43; some of the area was included while it was outside the normal curve of null hypothesis. Can you kindly explain?