The following terms are used by electrical engineers in statistical signal processing studies instead of typical statistician's terms.

StatisticsElectrical engineering
Null hypothesisNoise only hypothesis
Alternative hypothesisSignal + noise hypothesis
Critical regionSignal present decision region
Type I errorFalse alarm (FA) (noted as P F A {\displaystyle P_{FA}})
Type II errorMiss

In other engineering fields, particularly mechanical engineering, uncertainty analysis examines systematic and random components of variations in measurements associated with physical experiments.

Notes

  1. S.M. Kay, Fundamentals of Statistical Signal Processing, ISBN 0-13-504135-X.
  2. H. Coleman and W. G. Steele, Experimentation and uncertainty analysis for engineers, ISBN 0-471-12146-0.