In clinical trials, ignoring errors of the second kind can cause ineffective treatments to be mistakenly judged as beneficial.

When reviewing the clinical trial results, the statisticians noted several errors of the first kind that could invalidate the conclusions.

Researchers must account for multiple comparisons to avoid inflating the risk of type I errors in their study.

During the code review, we found several off-by-one errors that caused incorrect array indexing.

The final results were inaccurate because of persistent round-off errors in the simulation.

The development team spent the night tracking down several fatal system errors that caused the application to crash.

She lost the match after an untimely unforced error on match point.

The error-prone data entry process caused several billing mistakes last quarter.

The poll results were unreliable because the margins of error overlapped across the candidates.

The researchers increased the sample size to reduce the risk of a beta error.