February, 2003
© 2000, 2001, 2003 Scott S. Emerson, M.D., Ph.D.
We would
like to have high precision as we discriminate between
hypotheses
Scientifically,
we are interested in performing experiments to decide which of
two (or more) hypotheses might be true
Discrimination
with high precision suggests that if we are highly confident that one
hypothesis is true,
we are
equally confident that all other, mutually exclusive hypotheses are false