Topic summary
Multiple comparison
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Multiple comparisons problem.
History
The problem of multiple comparisons received increased attention in the 1950s with the work of statisticians such as Tukey and Scheffé. Over the ensuing decades, many procedures were developed to address the problem. In 1996, the first international conference on multiple comparison procedures took place in Tel Aviv. Several researchers are active in this area, for example Emmanuel Candès and Vladimir Vovk.