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Adjusting for multiple testing when reporting research results: the Bonferroni vs Holm methods.
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Public health researchers are sometimes required to make adjustments for multiple testing in reporting their results, which reduces the apparent significance of effects and thus reduces statistical power. The Bonferroni procedure is the most widely recommended way of doing this, but another procedure, that of Holm, is uniformly better. Researchers may have neglected Holm's procedure because it has been framed in terms of hypothesis test rejection rather than in terms of P values. An adjustment to P values based on Holm's method is presented in order to promote the method's use in public health research.
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“Multiple comparisons will be used to test a priori hypotheses and to conduct post-hoc testing, with the alpha rate adjusted using the Holm-Bonferroni method [68].”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Aickin, M., & Gensler, H.
- Affiliations
- University of Arizona (US)
- Venue
- American Journal of Public Health
- Publisher
- American Public Health Association
- Published
- 1996-05
- Volume
- 86
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 726-728
- ISSN
- 0090-0036 (ISSN-L)
- 1541-0048
- PMC
- PMC1380484
- OpenAlex
- W2020720070
- Cited by
- 1,346
- References
- 9
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- FWCI
- 11.72
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- American Journal of Public Health (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- University of Arizona Cancer Center
- National Cancer Institute (CA-25702)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Mathematics › Statistics and Probability › Statistical Methods in Clinical Trials
- Physical Sciences › Mathematics › Statistics and Probability › Statistical Methods in Epidemiology
- Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty › Meta-analysis and systematic reviews
- Keywords
- multiple comparisons, Bonferroni correction, p-value adjustment, statistical significance, statistical power, hypothesis testing
- MeSH terms
- Animals, Biometry, Humans, Public Health, Research, Skin Neoplasms, Mice
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