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Benjamini-Hochberg correction

Posted by gotgenes on 05 May 2011 at 16:26 GMT

Šidák single-step adjusted P-value for multiple comparisons
http://ploscompbiol.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000730#article1.body1.sec4.sec4.p3

Bonferroni-type corrections can be very conservative. An alternative, less conservative correction method to consider would be the Benjamini-Hochberg correction.

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RE: Benjamini-Hochberg correction

Lussier replied to gotgenes on 05 May 2011 at 18:29 GMT

We agree that the predictions could be extended using the B-H corrections. This proof of concept manuscript was designed to validate the most conservative predictions.

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