Question

Read the passage provided, and then consider the following scenario. A physician is trying to decide whether to prescribe medication for cholesterol reduction in a 45-year-old female patient. The null hypothesis is that the patient’s cholesterol is less than the threshold of treatable hypercholesterolemia. However, a sample of readings over a 2-year time period shows considerable variation, usually below but sometimes above the threshold.

Define Type I and Type II error.

List the costs of each type of error (in general terms). Who bears the cost of each?

How might the patient’s point of view differ from the HMO’s or doctor’s?

In what sense is this a business problem? A societal problem? An individual problem?

Answer 1

Type I error here is rejecting the fact that the patient’s cholesterol is less than the threshold of treatable hypercholesterolemia, even though it is true.

For this situation patient will be related to more noteworthy than treatment level and the patient bears the expense by experiencing incorrectly treatmene.t

Type II error here is accepting the fact that the patient’s cholesterol is less than the threshold of treatable hypercholesterolemia, even though it is not true.

Indeed, even here the patient bears the expense by wrong conclusion and treatment.

Despite the fact that here the individual patient is influenced, we can close it is a general public issue, as wrong conclusion is a genuine worry overall.

Hence steps should be taken to improve the test procedure to identity the disease.