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You have screened 5,000 candidate features and want to hand a shortlist to a colleague for follow-up. Which correction fits?
- ABonferroni, so no false positive survives
- BBenjamini–Hochberg, controlling the false discovery rate
- CNo correction at all – a 5% test is a 5% test however many you run
- DRaise the threshold to 10% to catch more
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