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. 2013 Jan 16;14:6. doi: 10.1186/1471-2105-14-6

Table 3.

Comparison of the proposed method, EDGE and Sohn’s method for the single group test by FPR (proportion of falsely rejected hypotheses over the total number of rejected hypotheses) and sensitivity (proportion of true positives correctly identified)

      Proposeda Proposedb EDGE Sohn’s
Π0=0.05
FDR = 0.01
FPR
0.0016
0.0127
0.0100
0.0091
 
 
Sensitivity
0.7606
0.6864
0.4742
0.5160
 
FDR = 0.05
FPR
0.0180
0.0541
0.0459
0.0514
 
 
Sensitivity
0.8440
0.7858
0.6378
0.6616
Π0=0.2
FDR = 0.01
FPR
0.0003
0.0084
0.0079
0.0078
 
 
Sensitivity
0.7716
0.7851
0.6210
0.6302
 
FDR = 0.05
FPR
0.0070
0.0409
0.0363
0.0408
 
 
Sensitivity
0.8644
0.8667
0.7652
0.7641
Π0=0.5
FDR = 0.01
FPR
0.0002
0.0053
0.0041
0.0051
 
 
Sensitivity
0.7731
0.8329
0.7021
0.7031
 
FDR = 0.05
FPR
0.0025
0.0251
0.0238
0.0244
    Sensitivity 0.8709 0.9049 0.8285 0.8261

Proposed b uses (7) for computing p-values and Proposed a, EDGE and Sohn’s use (8).