Statisticians' and engineers' cross-reference of statistical terms explained

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

Statistics ! Electrical engineering	-		Noise only hypothesis	-		Signal + noise hypothesis	-		Signal present decision region	-		False alarm (FA) (noted as P _{FA} )	-		Miss ^[1]

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

References

1. S.M. Kay, Fundamentals of Statistical Signal Processing, .
2. H. Coleman and W. G. Steele, Experimentation and uncertainty analysis for engineers, .

Notes and References

1. The detection probability (noted as P _{D} ) is frequently used instead of miss probability given by 1- P _{D}