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. 2000 May 11;67(1):249–252. doi: 10.1086/302966

Table 2.

Type I Error Rates for Different α Values in the Different Distributions

	Type I Error Rates for α =
Model	.10	.05	.01	.001	.0001
Normal	.09901	.04934	.0120^a	.00091	.00008
CP-normal	.10080	.05073	.00983	.00096	.00010
CP-mixture 1	.10255^a	.05005	.00914^b	.00067^b	.00004
CP-mixture 2	.10050	.04970	.00974	.00092	.00006
CP-mixture 3	.10410^a	.04977	.00773^b	.00053^b	.00003^b
CP-(G×E) mixture 1	.10928^a	.04816^b	.00621^b	.00045^b	.00002^b
CP-(G×E) mixture 2	.10181	.05052	.00911^b	.00070^b	.00004
CP-(G×E) mixture 3	.11350^a	.04668^b	.00650^b	.00040^b	.00001^b
CP-χ2 df = 2	.10776^a	.05017	.00703^b	.00026^b	.00001^b
CP-Laplace	.10250^a	.05020	.00843^b	.00051^b	.00001^b
CP-binary (.5)	.09898	.04849	.00981	.00098	.00009
CP-binary (.1)	.10613^a	.05060	.00679^b	.00026^b	.00000^b
CP-extremes	.09868	.04925	.00975	.00084	.00008

^a

Above the upper bound of the confidence interval (inflated type I error rate).

^b

Below the lower bound of the confidence interval (conservative type I error rate).