pygsti.tools.hypothesis.sidak_correction

pygsti.tools.hypothesis.sidak_correction#

sidak_correction(significance, numtests)#

Sidak correction.

Convert a significance level for an individual test repeated independently, numtest times into a significance level for the whole family of tests.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/sidak_correction

Parameters:
  • significance (float) – Significance of each individual test.

  • numtests (int) – The number of hypothesis tests performed.

Return type:

float