# Changing the FDR

**URL:** <https://forum.biobakery.org/t/changing-the-fdr/2030>\
**Category:** HAllA\
**Created:** [May 2, 2021, 5:41pm UTC](https://forum.biobakery.org/t/changing-the-fdr/2030 "2021-05-02T17:41:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![naamah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@naamah](https://forum.biobakery.org/u/naamah)\
**Post date:** [May 2, 2021, 5:41pm UTC](https://forum.biobakery.org/t/changing-the-fdr/2030/1 "2021-05-02T17:41:54Z")

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Hi,  
How can I change the FDR from the default 0.1 to 0.05?  
Thank you

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**Author:** ![andrewGhazi](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/user_avatar/forum.biobakery.org/andrewghazi/32/2950_2.png) [@andrewGhazi](https://forum.biobakery.org/u/andrewGhazi)\
**Post date:** [May 2, 2021, 6:10pm UTC](https://forum.biobakery.org/t/changing-the-fdr/2030/2 "2021-05-02T18:10:47Z")

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Hi Naamah, you can do that with the argument `--fdr_alpha=0.05`

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**Author:** ![naamah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@naamah](https://forum.biobakery.org/u/naamah)\
**Post date:** [May 2, 2021, 6:22pm UTC](https://forum.biobakery.org/t/changing-the-fdr/2030/3 "2021-05-02T18:22:27Z")

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Great, will try it now. Thank you!

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**Author:** ![naamah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@naamah](https://forum.biobakery.org/u/naamah)\
**Post date:** [May 2, 2021, 6:32pm UTC](https://forum.biobakery.org/t/changing-the-fdr/2030/4 "2021-05-02T18:32:22Z")

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So I tried it but I get this error:  
usage: halla [-h] [–version] -X \<input\_dataset\_1.txt\>  
[-Y \<input\_dataset\_2.txt\>] -o [-q \<.1\>]  
[-p {ecdf,gpd,none}] [-a {HAllA,AllA}]  
[–fdr-style {level,all,family}] [-i \<1000\>]  
[-m {nmi,ami,mic,dmic,dcor,pearson,spearman,r2}]  
[-d {none,mca,pca,ica,cca,kpca,pls,medoid,mean,farthest}]  
[–fdr {bh,by,y,meinshausen,bonferroni,no\_adjusting}]  
[-v VERBOSE] [–diagnostics-plot]  
[–discretizing {equal-freq,hclust,jenks,none}]  
[–linkage {single,average,complete,weighted}]  
[–apply-stop-condition] [–generate-one-null-samples] [–header]  
[–format-feature-names] [–nproc \<1\>] [–nbin] [-s SEED]  
[-e ENTROPY\_THRESHOLD] [-e1 ENTROPY\_THRESHOLD1]  
[-e2 ENTROPY\_THRESHOLD2] [–missing-char MISSING\_CHAR]  
[–fill-missing {mean,median,most\_frequent}]  
[–missing-data-category] [–write-hypothesis-tree]  
[-t {log,sqrt,arcsin,arcsinh,}]  
halla: error: unrecognized arguments: -fdr\_alpha=0.05

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**Author:** ![andrewGhazi](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/user_avatar/forum.biobakery.org/andrewghazi/32/2950_2.png) [@andrewGhazi](https://forum.biobakery.org/u/andrewGhazi)\
**Post date:** [May 2, 2021, 10:31pm UTC](https://forum.biobakery.org/t/changing-the-fdr/2030/5 "2021-05-02T22:31:59Z")

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It looks like you’re using an old version. I recommend you reinstall with `pip install halla` or get the very latest development version from Github.