Correspondence to: Hans-Hermann Dubben, PhD, Institute of General Practice, University of Hamburg, Martinistrasse 52, 20246 Hamburg, Germany (e-mail: dubben{at}uke.uni-hamburg.de)
I read with great interest the very comprehensible commentary by Wacholder et al. (1) and share the authors' interpretation of statistical significance. However, I cannot duplicate their calculation leading to their figure 5, in which higher statistical power is associated with a higher false-positive report probability (FPRP). It is my understanding that higher statistical power results in a lower FPRP. I therefore assume that something is wrong in that figure.
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1 Wacholder S, Chanock S, Garcia-Closas M, El Ghormli L, Rothman N. Assessing the probability that a positive report is false: an approach for molecular epidemiology studies. J Natl Cancer Inst 2004;96:43442.
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