Glossary of Terms

α risk —

The α risk is the probability of committing a Type I error or the probability of rejecting the null hypothesis when it is true.

Additive flag system—

An additive flag system is used to track corporate indicators that are the summation of departmental indicators; for example, the corporate indicator (Y) is a linear combination of the departmental indicators (X₁ + X₂ + X₃ + X₄).