Index: The Book of Statistical ProofsGeneral Theorems ▷ Frequentist statistics ▷ Hypothesis testing ▷ Power of a test

Definition: Let there be a statistical hypothesis test with null hypothesis $H_0$ and alternative hypothesis $H_1$. Then, the power of the test is the probability of a true-positive result or not making a type II error, i.e. the probability of rejecting $H_0$, given that $H_1$ is actually true.

For given null and alternative hypothesis, the size is determined by the following conditional probability:

\[\label{eq:power} \mathrm{Pr}(\text{test rejects } H_0 \vert H_1) \; .\]
 
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