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The right answer for the wrong question: consequences of type III error for public health research.

Author(s) -

Sharon Schwartz,

Kenneth M. Carpenter

Publication year - 1999

Publication title -

american journal of public health

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.284

H-Index - 264

eISSN - 1541-0048

pISSN - 0090-0036

DOI - 10.2105/ajph.89.8.1175

Subject(s) - variation (astronomy) , public health , type i and type ii errors , population , demography , psychology , social psychology , statistics , medicine , sociology , mathematics , pathology , physics , astrophysics

This study examined the impact of assessing the causes of interindividual variation within a population when the research question of interest is about causes of differences between populations or time periods. This discrepancy between the research focus and the research question is referred to as a type III error, one that provides the right answer for the wrong question.

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