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Power of a Test: The Strength of Evidence

Students frequently conflate power with the significance level. Remember: α \alpha is a choice of risk management (Type I), while power is a measure of diagnostic efficacy (Type II). Increasing the sample size n n improves power, but it does not inherently change the fixed α \alpha threshold.
Institutional Reference: Statistical Inference I
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