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How to permute p-values?
There is no statistical method that will allow you to "ensure" that significant results are not false positives. However, there are well-established scientific methods. Those methods involve ...
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Stouffer's Method: Restriction on underlying hypothesis tests producing p values?
Stouffer's method does not assume that the p-values were obtained from z-tests / z-scores. It just makes use of the fact that if the null hypothesis is true for a particular test, then $p \sim \textrm{...
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How to permute p-values?
A use of permutations in controlling family wise error rate is described in
Romano, Joseph P., and Michael Wolf. "Exact and approximate stepdown methods for multiple hypothesis testing." ...
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How to permute p-values?
Your core question is: "This brings up a question: how can we ensure these 30 results are not generated by random events?"
I should point out that both the t.test and p.adjust already do ...
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How to permute p-values?
Few thoughts:
This brings up a question: how can we ensure these 30 results are not generated by random events?
Unless you already know which hypothesis is true (the null or alternative), no ...
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