STATS 2B03 Lecture Notes - Family-Wise Error Rate, Statistical Hypothesis Testing, Birth Weight
19 Jun 2013
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We want to see if smoking status effects birth weight. Eer = p(at least 1 type i error) A similar problem exists in any retrospective study (one that ahs existing data to test a hypothesis) Example: if you want to test to see if a drug causes some health problem, you could come up w/any 10 health problems and do 10 hypothesis tests. In this case, if the drug doesn"t cause any of the health problems, then eer = 1 -
