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 (%) |
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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 |