what are type 1 and type 2 errors, what are independent and mutually exclusive events,

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Type 1 and type 2 errors are related to statistical hypothesis testing, while independent and mutually exclusive events are concepts in probability theory.

Type 1 error occurs when a true null hypothesis is incorrectly rejected, while type 2 error occurs when a false null hypothesis is not rejected.
Independent events are events where the occurrence of one event does not affect the probability of the other event happening. Mutually exclusive events are events that cannot occur simultaneously.
For example, in medical testing, a type 1 error would be declaring a patient as having a disease when they do not, while a type 2 error would be failing to diagnose a patient with a disease when they actually have it.

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