This week we focus on the concept of false discovery in data. After reviewing the article by Naouma (2019), answer the following questions:
- What is a false discovery rate?
- Can a false discovery rate be completely avoided? Explain.
- What was the outcome of the results of the use case?
Read:
- ch.10 in textbook: Avoiding False Discoveries
- Naouma, P. (2019). A comparison of random-field-theory and false-discovery-rate inference results in the analysis of registered one-dimensional biomechanical datasets. PeerJ (San Francisco, CA), 7, e8189–e8189.