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13 - Multiplicity in Testing

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 April 2022

Michael P. Fay
Affiliation:
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Erica H. Brittain
Affiliation:
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
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This chapter addresses multiplicity in testing, the problem that if many hypotheses are tested then unless some multiplicity adjustment is made, the probability of falsely rejecting at least one hypothesis can be unduly high. We define familywise error rate (FWER), the probability that at least one null hypothesis in the family of hypotheses is rejected. We discuss which sets of hypotheses should be grouped into families. We define the false discovery rate (FDR). We describe simple adjustments based only on p-values of the hypotheses in the family, such the Bonferroni, Holm, and Hochberg procedures for FWER control and the Benjamini–Hochberg adjustment for FDR control. We discuss max-t type inferences for controlling FWER in linear models, or other models with asymptotically normal estimators. We describe resampling-based multiplicity adjustments. We demonstrate graphical methods, showing, for example, gatekeeping and fallback methods, and allowing for more complicated methods. We briefly present logical constraints for hypotheses and the theoretically important closure method.

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Statistical Hypothesis Testing in Context
Reproducibility, Inference, and Science
, pp. 235 - 252
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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