Blackstone on Errors in Trials Sir William Blackstone(1723-1780) wrote influenti

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Blackstone on Errors in Trials Sir William Blackstone(1723-1780) wrote influential books on common law. He made this statement: "All presumptive evidence of felony should be admit ted cautiously; for the law holds it better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent party suffer." Keep in mind that the null hypothesis in criminal trials is that the defendant is not guilty. State which of these errors (in blue) is the first type of error (rejecting the null hypothesis when it is actually true) and which is the second type of error.

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we know that

In statistical hypothesis testing, a type I error is the incorrect rejection of a true null hypothesis (a "false positive"), while a type II error is incorrectly retaining a false null hypothesis (a "false negative").

Hence keeping this in mind

Type 1 error is thus inncoent party suffer , which is false positive as the person who is innocent is convicted for crime

False negative is guilty persons escape , as the person who commited crime is not convicted and escapes from the punishment

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