Dear Donald Burrill,
Thank you for the reply to me.
Sorry I wrote by mistake "My aim was to compare groups 2, 3, 4 with
control(group 1)", would be: My aim was to compare groups 2, 3, 4,5
with control(group 1)". Anyway you had corrected it.
The rewiever had written me: "Accordingly, a "statistical penalty"
needs to be paid in order to account for the increased risk of a Type
1 error due to multiple comparisons. The easist way to achieve this
goal to adjust the P value require to declare significance using the
Bonferroni correction."
1.What is the correct meaning of the last sentence? What must I do?
As you wrote, must I find the adjusted p values or declare the
adjusted significance level alpha?
2. There are apparently and exactly three groups; groups 1, 3, 5 that
had the same proportions of translocation. Therefore, to compare only
the group 2 and 3 with the control can be appropriate, can it be?
Thus, there would be two comparisons and the p valus 0.008 (0.008 x 2
=0.016) and 0.02 (0.02 x 2 = 0.04)would be significant. Is it right?
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