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On the sensible application of familywise alpha adjustment

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Abstract

This essay responds to Daniel O'Keefe's "Against Familywise Alpha Adjustment." Whereas O'Keefe maintains that one should never attempt to control Type I error introduced when many statistical tests are conducted, this essay argues that alpha adjustment should be applied only in the narrowly circumscribed instance when the researcher wants to make a strong claim that there is no Type I error in a specific collection of tests.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)455-463
Number of pages9
JournalHuman Communication Research
Volume29
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - Jul 2003

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