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. 2013 Jun 20;14:200. doi: 10.1186/1471-2105-14-200

Table 1.

Type I error for simulated data sets

Parameters Type I error
α
σY
QBlossoc
LSS
5
10
0.03
0.03
5
20
0.06
0.07
5
30
0.04
0.10
5
40
0.03
0.03
7.5
10
0.06
0.04
7.5
20
0.06
0.06
7.5
30
0.05
0.05
7.5
40
0.07
0.06
10
10
0.08
0.03
10
20
0.04
0.07
10
30
0.03
0.03
10 40 0.02 0.03

For the values of α (the strength of selection) and σY (the standard deviation of the quantitative trait per unit time) considered here, the type I error rates are all near 0.05 for these simulation results.