Table 3.

True and estimated proportion of genes in null distribution with the MD-MM and pFDR methods*.

		Estimated Percent in Null Distribution		Percent Error
Case	True Percent in the Null Distribution	MD-MM	pFDR	MD-MM	pFDR
1	90	84.3	95.9	−6.3	6.5
2	90	90.1	92.8	0.1	3.1
3	90	89.9	91.5	−0.1	1.6
4	90	85.2	98.9	−5.3	9.9
5	50	54.1	80.2	8.2	60.3
6	50	49.9	69.9	−0.2	39.8
7	50	49.7	58.9	−0.6	17.9
8	50	51.9	96.3	3.8	92.6
9	50	52.5	94.8	5.0	89.6
10	50	51.6	86.5	3.2	73.0
11	50	49.5	77.7	−1.0	55.5
12	50	51	46.7	2.0	−6.6
13	50	49.1	75.2	−1.8	50.3
14	50	49.8	63.4	−0.4	26.8
15	50	50.1	59.3	0.2	18.6
16	50	49.3	89.7	−1.4	79.5
MEAN	60.0	59.9	79.9	0.3±0.9	38.7±8.4