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a real effect which is not recognised as a positive outcome on statistical testing because it is not so unlikely to occur by chance to be excluded as a chance event
The occurrence of false negatives can be reduced by using a less restricitive confidence level as a criterion of significance (e.g., p <0.25) but this increases the frequency of false positives
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