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. 2005 Sep 14;77(5):768–780. doi: 10.1086/497434

Table 3.

Simulated Type I Error Rates for Dichotomous Traits[Note]

Type I Error Rate atNominal Significance Level
Frequencyof Allele A,Sample Size,and Statistic .1 .05 .01 .001
p=.1:
n=100:
  ΛNew .0694 .0270 .0047 .0003
  ΛDom .1094 .0516 .0107 .0007
  ΛRec .1028 .0164 .0003 .0000
  ΛAdd .1041 .0522 .0112 .0008
  ΛLarger .0713 .0271 .0060 .0003
  ΛUnc .0732 .0329 .0059 .0004
n=200:
  ΛNew .1158 .0494 .0075 .0006
  ΛDom .1064 .0520 .0095 .0013
  ΛRec .2008 .0577 .0039 .0001
  ΛAdd .1045 .0531 .0106 .0011
  ΛLarger .1057 .0424 .0064 .0008
  ΛUnc .1101 .0484 .0078 .0006
p=.3:
n=100:
  ΛNew .1068 .0544 .0118 .0009
  ΛDom .0869 .0570 .0120 .0009
  ΛRec .1111 .0621 .0145 .0012
  ΛAdd .1033 .0536 .0096 .0005
  ΛLarger .1134 .0553 .0138 .0011
  ΛUnc .1103 .0580 .0119 .0013
n=200:
  ΛNew .0935 .0445 .0099 .0017
  ΛDom .1039 .0539 .0081 .0009
  ΛRec .0978 .0493 .0105 .0020
  ΛAdd .1035 .0499 .0082 .0014
  ΛLarger .0999 .0499 .0104 .0014
  ΛUnc .0971 .0480 .0113 .0016
p=.5:
n=100:
  ΛNew .0968 .0487 .0100 .0006
  ΛDom .1017 .0498 .0101 .0011
  ΛRec .1012 .0509 .0101 .0006
  ΛAdd .1014 .0492 .0106 .0007
  ΛLarger .1073 .0546 .0109 .0010
  ΛUnc .1039 .0558 .0115 .0007
n=200:
  ΛNew .0977 .0471 .0084 .0007
  ΛDom .1008 .0503 .0088 .0011
  ΛRec .1023 .0539 .0102 .0006
  ΛAdd .1053 .0525 .0103 .0009
  ΛLarger .1054 .0508 .0088 .0007
  ΛUnc .1032 .0488 .0083 .0006

Note.— Half of the sample is cases, and the other half is controls.