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. 2022 Jul 12;11:783. [Version 1] doi: 10.12688/f1000research.123002.1

Table 2. Results for the simulation study. Percentages of simulated trials that were not flagged or were flagged as under- or over-dispersed using a > 0.95 probability threshold, and a test of uniformity for the p-value distribution using a < 0.05 threshold.

Simulation type Uniform test rejected (%) As expected/Under-dispersed/Over-dispersed (%)
Simulated data that is not under- or over-dispersed
Continuous, minimal rounding 6.0 100/0/0
Large binary 5.6 99.6/0.4/0
50:50 binary:continuous 18.6 99.8/0/0.2
Rounded 21.2 97.0/0/3.0
Correlated categorical 27.4 97.4/2.0/0.6
Small binary 31.6 98.4/1.6/0
Skewed 43.8 98.8/1.0/0.2
Simulated data that is under- or over-dispersed
Over-dispersed 74.6 13.6/2.0/84.4
Under-dispersed 95.0 84.0/16.0/0