Chunk #18 — Methods and Materials — Follow Up Statistical Analyses

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The Ability of Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging to Predict Heavy Drinking and Alcohol Problems 5 Years Later.

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Recognizing both that multiple testing was involved in these analyses and that the sample was modest sized, Type 1 errors were evaluated using the exact binomial procedure. This approach was chosen to correct for multiple testing because Bonferroni corrections are overly conservative (Bland, 2000), especially for modest sized samples.