© 2004 by Oxford University Press
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Assessing the Probability That a Positive Report is False
The genomic revolution presents exciting opportunities to learn about the etiology of cancer and other complex diseases. In a commentary, Wacholder et al. (p. 434) argue that the practice of using the P value alone to declare a finding to be statistically significant is no longer appropriate for deciding which of the many reports of associations between genetic variants and common cancer sites are truly significant. They propose, instead, that investigators use the false-positive report probability (FPRP)the probability of no true association between a genetic variant and a disease, given a statistically significant findingto evaluate whether
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