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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2025 Jun 30.
Published in final edited form as: Stat Med. 2023 Jul 17;42(22):4015–4027. doi: 10.1002/sim.9845

TABLE 4.

Comparison of powers of the regression-based test and the Hotelling T2 test under the third setting (runs:1000).

n Test Variance The number of levels of Z
K = 2
K = 3
K = 4
K = 5
σX2=σY2 σX2σY2 σX2=σY2 σX2σY2 σX2=σY2 σX2σY2 σX2=σY2 σX2σY2
30 Regression Approximate 0.300 0.272 0.121 0.103 0.230 0.197 0.326 0.342
Bootstrapping 0.186 0.188 0.059 0.054 0.140 0.126 0.205 0.223
Hotelling Approximate 0.266 0.257 0.234 0.248 0.497 0.484 0.534 0.539
Bootstrapping 0.156 0.155 0.110 0.104 0.279 0.279 0.273 0.302
60 Regression Approximate 0.457 0.460 0.126 0.113 0.305 0.303 0.516 0.510
Bootstrapping 0.381 0.387 0.091 0.094 0.238 0.234 0.452 0.436
Hotelling Approximate 0.443 0.449 0.386 0.382 0.741 0.729 0.780 0.785
Bootstrapping 0.347 0.360 0.274 0.296 0.630 0.621 0.668 0.687
100 Regression Approximate 0.688 0.644 0.162 0.172 0.458 0.451 0.737 0.705
Bootstrapping 0.642 0.601 0.139 0.148 0.417 0.410 0.687 0.673
Hotelling Approximate 0.683 0.634 0.587 0.578 0.934 0.943 0.959 0.961
Bootstrapping 0.626 0.586 0.516 0.514 0.902 0.909 0.934 0.939
150 Regression Approximate 0.855 0.839 0.213 0.198 0.600 0.611 0.870 0.888
Bootstrapping 0.831 0.822 0.204 0.174 0.585 0.595 0.848 0.866
Hotelling Approximate 0.852 0.836 0.759 0.745 0.986 0.993 0.998 0.996
Bootstrapping 0.824 0.816 0.715 0.706 0.986 0.990 0.998 0.992

Note: The data were generated more generally, in which θks are different but do not follow any functional trend as the covariate Z varies.