diff --git a/devices/statistics_writer/README.md b/devices/statistics_writer/README.md
index 7887e9f471afa90dc28690aa47f93b0440beb200..6111efc6bd3fc9ccbc8a0bc733b0b6ac962742c5 100644
--- a/devices/statistics_writer/README.md
+++ b/devices/statistics_writer/README.md
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ This script can be called with the following arguments:
   --output_dir  specifies the folder to write all the files
   --mode        sets the statistics type to be decoded options: "SST", "XST", "BST"
   --debug       takes no arguments, when used prints a lot of extra data to help with debugging
-  --Decimation  Configure the writer to only store one every n samples. Saves storage space
+  --decimation  Configure the writer to only store one every n samples. Saves storage space
   ```
 
 ##HFD5 structure