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Luis A. Afonso
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Sidak correction
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Jan 3, 2013 1:38 PM
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Sidak correction
When a set of k independent statistical tests is performed we must adapt the significance level in order to obtain a global desired level, alpha= 0.05 or 0.01.
One must set, with alpha´ the significance level of each individual test:
____alpha = 1 - (1-alpha´)^k
_alpha is the probability to get at least one significant test among k.
From which we find alpha´ = 1 - (1- alpha)^(1/k)
__ 1 minus the k root of (1-alpha). Therefore setting all k individual tests at alpha´ level we are sure that alpha is the probability to observe at least one of them significant.
For k=2:
___________alpha________alpha´_____
___________0.05________0.02532____
___________0.01________0.00501____
Bonferroni´s correction, alpha´ = alpha/2, leads to similar values: 0.025 and 0.005 respectively.
Luis A. Afonso
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