multiple comparison
collocation in Englishmeaningsofmultipleandcomparison
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multiple
adjective
uk/ˈmʌl.tɪ.pəl/us/ˈmʌl.tə.pəl/
very many of the same type, or of ...
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comparison
noun[C or U]
uk/kəmˈpær.ɪ.sən/us/kəmˈper.ɪ.sən/
the act of comparing two or more people ...
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Amultiplecomparisontest consequently indicated that the regression line derived from cattle isolates was higher than that derived from sheep or camel isolates.
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Convergent and discriminant validity were demonstrated withmultiplecomparisonmeasures.
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This result can be explained by the fact that calculating contrasts between groups is more powerful than performingmultiplecomparisontests.
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The results of the simple main effect andmultiplecomparisontests were as follows.
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Tukey'smultiplecomparisontests were used to locate significant treatment effects.
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Dunnett'smultiplecomparisonprocedure was used to test for significant differences from a control for each treatment group.
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In these datasets, too few of the measured variables showed statistical significance after classic correction for multiple tests with standardmultiplecomparisonprocedures.
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Multiplecomparisonprocedures are then used to determine which means differ.
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The least significant difference was used for multiple comparisons among treatments.
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If more than one sibling was available, multiple comparisons were made.
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A comparison of four procedures for multiple comparisons among means (pairwise contrasts) for arbitrary sample sizes.
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Alternatively this association may be an artefact of multiple comparisons.
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The tests for population differentiation showed that most of the populations were significantly different after correction for multiple comparisons (table 3 and fig. 3).
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All secondary analyses were conducted at the significance level of 0.05, with no adjustment for multiple comparisons.
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I assessed significance of the observed frequency of cooccurrences in each observation both with and without correction for multiple comparisons.
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