Multiple testing correction is a family of statistical procedures that adjust significance thresholds or p-values when performing simultaneous hypothesis tests, controlling either the family-wise error rate or the false discovery rate. Its parameters are: the number of tests, the test statistics, the error rate target (FWER or FDR), and the correction procedure (Bonferroni, Benjamini-Hochberg, Holm, Šidák). It persists through statistical software packages, academic standards, and regulatory practice. [formal: plurium probationum correctio | substrate: mind | horizon: hours | explicit: yes | epoch: 0.02]
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multiple testing correction
Multiple testing correction is a family of statistical procedures that adjust significance thresholds or p-values when performing simultaneous hypothesis tests, controlling either the family-wise error rate or the false discovery rate. Its…
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A human-made statistical procedure for adjusting significance thresholds when conducting multiple simultaneous hypothesis tests, preventing the inflation of false discovery rates. Implemented via methods including Bonferroni correction, Benjamini-Hochberg procedure, and Holm-Bonferroni method. Persists through statistical software, textbook pedagogy, and standard practice in genomics and data science.
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Multiple testing correction IS a specific kind of statistical method — procedures (Bonferroni, BH, FDR control) that adjust significance thresholds for simultaneous hypothesis tests. Competent speaker would call it a statistical method.
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Multiple testing correction adjusts statistical significance thresholds when conducting multiple simultaneous tests. It needs statistics as its operating framework — without statistical theory for p-values, error rates, and inference, the correction procedure has no mechanism to operate. The removal test passes.
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False discovery rate (FDR) was developed from the broader theory of multiple testing correction — multiple testing correction existed first and fed into the specific FDR methodology.
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