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The document discusses how multiple statistical tests on the same data can lead to false discoveries due to chance alone. It describes how a Swedish study of 800 health effects related to power lines found one statistically significant result, even though follow up analysis did not confirm it. This likely occurred due to multiple testing fallacy. The document then discusses various methods like Bonferroni correction, controlling false discovery rate, and using a validation data set to properly account for m

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admirodebrito

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