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Per-comparison error rate

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In statistics, per-comparison error rate (PCER) is the probability of a Type I error in the absence of any multiple hypothesis testing correction.[1] This is a liberal error rate relative to the false discovery rate and family-wise error rate, in that it is always less than or equal to those rates.

References

  1. ^ Benjamini, Yoav; Hochberg, Yosef (1995). "Controlling the false discovery rate: a practical and powerful approach to multiple testing" (PDF). Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B. 57 (1): 289–300. doi:10.1111/j.2517-6161.1995.tb02031.x. MR 1325392.