Family-Wise Error Rate

Problem

Return the family-wise error rate 1 - (1-alpha)^m for m independent tests at level alpha. Return 0.0 when m <= 0 or alpha <= 0, and 1.0 when alpha >= 1.

Hint

The chance of at least one false positive is the complement of all tests being clean.

Test cases

case 1

in: [0.05,10]

expected: 0.4012630607616213

case 2

in: [0.01,5]

expected: 0.04900995010000009

case 3

in: [0.05,1]

expected: 0.050000000000000044

case 4

in: [0.05,0]

expected: 0

case 5

in: [0,5]

expected: 0

Starter codePython

def family_wise_error_rate(alpha, m):
    # Your code here
    pass

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