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Published in final edited form as: Stat Interface. 2011;4(3):359–371. doi: 10.4310/sii.2011.v4.n3.a10

Table 1. Description of the outcomes of m multiple tests, where m is the total number of statistical tests, m₀ is the number of true null hypotheses, m₁ is the number of alternative hypotheses, and r is the total number of hypotheses rejected at a significance level α.

True hypothesis	Non-significant	Significant	Total
Null	m₀ − r₀	r₀	m₀
Alternative	m₁ − r₁	r₁	m₁
Total	m − r	r	m

Table 1. Description of the outcomes of m multiple tests, where m is the total number of statistical tests, m0 is the number of true null hypotheses, m1 is the number of alternative hypotheses, and r is the total number of hypotheses rejected at a significance level α.