I’m vaguely annoyed with the way they explain statistical significance issues in genomics in this paper. It makes biologists sound worse than they are. They do control the family wise error rate when the ‘family’ in question is just the individual genes in an experiment. It’s when the family in question consists of multiple experiments, or papers, that the trouble starts.
I’m vaguely annoyed with the way they explain statistical significance issues in genomics in this paper. It makes biologists sound worse than they are. They do control the family wise error rate when the ‘family’ in question is just the individual genes in an experiment. It’s when the family in question consists of multiple experiments, or papers, that the trouble starts.