Multiplicities in science

• Multiplicities include:

  • Multiple comparisons
  • Subgroup analyses
  • Repeated significance testing

• Multiplicities are ubiquitous and they complicate inferences.

• But adjustments for “repeated significance testing” is non scientific and is a distinctly negative aspect of the frequentist approach.

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