Statistical tests are used in information retrieval to test various hypotheses such as which indexing method is better or which retrieval system is better. Sometimes when using these statistical tests there is not enough evidence to reject the null hypothesis. Then either we have correctly discovered a true null hypothesis or made a type II error (probability denoted by b) and falsely accepted a . . .
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