Abstract
The problem of type 1 error rates in clinical medicine research is discussed and a new measure of evaluating the incidences of type 1 error is presented. Three measures, including the experimentwise error rate, the error rate per experiment, and the percentage error rate are used to compute the type 1 error in a sample of clinical research. The results suggest the presence of a substantial incidence of type 1 error in the sampled research. The implications for statistical and scientific inferences are briefly discussed and some possible solutions explored.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 172-177 |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| Journal | The American journal of the medical sciences |
| Volume | 295 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Mar 1988 |
| Externally published | Yes |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Medicine
Fingerprint
Dive into the research topics of 'Scientific vs. statistical inference: the problem of multiple contrasts in clinical research.'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.Cite this
- APA
- Standard
- Harvard
- Vancouver
- Author
- BIBTEX
- RIS