Family-Wise Error Rate
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A Family-Wise Error Rate is an error measure for type I errors in a multiple comparisons test.
- AKA: FWER.
- See: Multiple Comparisons, Type I Error, Type II Error.
References
2016
- (Wikipedia, 2016) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family-wise_error_rate Retrieved:2016-9-14.
- In statistics, family-wise error rate (FWER) is the probability of making one or more false discoveries, or type I errors, among all the hypotheses when performing multiple hypotheses tests.