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false discovery rate

noun

C2CEFR level
90/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister

The expected proportion of significant findings that are actually false positives when many hypotheses are tested at once.

With four hundred metric comparisons, we control the false discovery rate instead of chasing every green cell.

Topic: Data & analytics in Business English

Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.

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