SOME DESIRABLE PROPERTIES OF THE BONFERRONI CORRECTION: IS THE BONFERRONI CORRECTION REALLY SO BAD?

摘要

The Bonferroni correction ( ) for multiple testing is sometimes criticized as being overly conservative. The correction is indeed conservative, and there are uniformly more powerful approaches that preserve type I error of the global null hypothesis ( ) (see ). However, there are considerations concerning the Bonferroni correction which suggest that its use, and reporting by its standard—perhaps accompanied by other metrics as well ( )—may not be entirely undesirable.