Multiple Comparisons Inference Task

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A Multiple Comparisons Inference Task is a statistical inference task that occurs when multiple sets of parameters are considered simultaneously.



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2016

Errors in inference, including confidence intervals that fail to include their corresponding population parameters or hypothesis tests that incorrectly reject the null hypothesis, are more likely to occur when one considers the set as a whole. Several statistical techniques have been developed to prevent this from happening, allowing significance levels for single and multiple comparisons to be directly compared. These techniques generally require a higher significance threshold for individual comparisons, so as to compensate for the number of inferences being made.