Hypothesis test

Bonferroni Correction

The Bonferroni correction is a conservative, universally applicable method for controlling the family-wise error rate (FWER) when conducting multiple simultaneous hypothesis tests. Grounded in Bonferroni's 1936 probability inequality and formalized for multiple comparisons by Olive Jean Dunn in 1961, the procedure divides the target significance level α by the number of tests m, ensuring that the probability of making even one false rejection across the entire family of tests does not exceed α.

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Sources

  1. Bonferroni, C. E. (1936). Teoria statistica delle classi e calcolo delle probabilità. Pubblicazioni del R Istituto Superiore di Scienze Economiche e Commerciali di Firenze, 8, 3–62. link
  2. Dunn, O. J. (1961). Multiple comparisons among means. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 56(293), 52–64. DOI: 10.1080/01621459.1961.10482090
  3. Miller, R. G. (1981). Simultaneous Statistical Inference (2nd ed.). Springer-Verlag. ISBN: 978-1-4613-8124-2

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ScholarGateBonferroni Correction (Bonferroni Family-Wise Error Rate Correction). Retrieved 2026-06-04 from https://scholargate.app/tr/statistics/bonferroni-correction