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  • adverb statistics In terms of a family of related inferences.

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family +‎ -wise

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Examples

  • Another related issue is familywise errors - using multiple tests simultaneously inflates type I errors false positives.

    New Year's Puzzler EliRabett 2010

  • PIERRE: Well, I think there's a bond between us, familywise, that they are going to be a part of our lives.

    CNN Transcript Sep 30, 2002 2002

  • The performance of the new procedure is assessed by means of its familywise error rate and power under different distributions.

    Elites TV PLoS ONE 2010

  • The performance of the new procedure is assessed by means of its familywise error rate and power under different distributions.

    Elites TV PLoS ONE 2010

  • So I took him over home myself; and an amazing kind of a surprise party it was, too -- typhoons and cyclones of frantic joy, and whole Niagaras of happy tears; and by George! we found the aforetime young matron graying toward the imminent verge of her half century, and the babies all men and women, and some of them married and experimenting familywise themselves -- for not a soul of the tribe was dead!

    A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court 1889

  • -- typhoons and cyclones of frantic joy, and whole Niagaras of happy tears; and by George! we found the aforetime young matron graying toward the imminent verge of her half century, and the babies all men and women, and some of them married and experimenting familywise themselves -- for not a soul of the tribe was dead!

    A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Part 4. Mark Twain 1872

  • -- typhoons and cyclones of frantic joy, and whole Niagaras of happy tears; and by George! we found the aforetime young matron graying toward the imminent verge of her half century, and the babies all men and women, and some of them married and experimenting familywise themselves -- for not a soul of the tribe was dead!

    A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court Mark Twain 1872

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