When to adjust alpha during multiple testing: a consideration of disjunction, conjunction, and individual testing.

Scientists often adjust their significance threshold (alpha level) during null hypothesis significance testing in order to take into account multiple testing and multiple comparisons. This alpha adjustment has become particularly relevant in the context of the replication crisis in science. The pres...

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Published in:	Synthese Vol. 199; no. 3/4; pp. 10969 - 11001
Main Author:	Rubin, Mark
Format:	Article
Published:	Springer Nature Dec2021
Subjects:	Null hypothesis Conformance testing Multiple comparisons (Statistics) False positive error Statistical hypothesis testing
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost