Proschan, Michael A.; Shaw, Pamela A. - In: Statistics & Probability Letters 81 (2011) 7, pp. 739-748
The Bonferroni adjustment is sometimes used to control the familywise error rate (FWE) when the number of comparisons is huge. In genome wide association studies, researchers compare cases to controls with respect to thousands of single nucleotide polymorphisms. It has been claimed that the...