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. 2001 Jan 10;2(1):research0003.1–research0003.12. doi: 10.1186/gb-2001-2-1-research0003

Table 5.

Simulation results

Scenario Average Average Proportion Proportion Average
number number of harvest of true correlation
in in genes in genes in
true estimate true harvest
3,624 total genes, 36 samples. Relative risk = 2.0 in additive scenarios
p =1 1.0 2.4 0.80 0.80 0.86
2 <p < 10 3.4 4.8 0.60 0.60 0.91
10 <p <300 26.2 6.4 0.60 0.19 0.77
Interaction 3.4 2.6 0.28 0.21 0.65
3,624 total genes, 36 samples. Relative risk = 1.0 in additive scenarios
p =1 1.0 1.6 0.24 0.60 0.61
2 <p <10 3.4 4.6 0.13 0.20 0.58
10 <p <300 26.2 3.8 0.40 0.21 0.61
1,622 total genes, 129 samples. Relative risk = 2.0 in additive scenarios
p = 1 1.00 1.60 0.77 1.00 0.97
2 <p <10 2.80 3.00 0.93 1.00 0.99
10 <p <300 64.6 16.6 0.94 0.66 0.91
Interaction 9.4 7.6 0.85 0.87 0.86

The value p is the number of genes in the true underlying model.