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By tradition alpha is set to 5% but if the risks
involved in the 'exposed' group is high, then it can be set to 10%.
Conversely if the subject is not critical it could be set to 1%. Alpha = 10% wil mean that with a little evidence the difference will be claimed significant. Alpha = 1% will mean that you need a very strong evidence to claim significance. |