. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Aug 18.

Published in final edited form as: Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2014 May 23;23(8):1649–1658. doi: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-13-1253

Table 5.

False positive rates by study characteristics

		Crude¹		Adjusted²
	N	FPR³	P-value	FPR³	p-value
Age
40–49	222	54	0.170	56	0.740
50–64	246	56		56
65+	113	65		61
Ethnicity
Non-Hispanic Black (NHB)	325	47	<0.0001	47	<0.0001
Mexican	94	72		76
Puerto-Rican	162	67		65
Health Insurance
None	164	47	0.004	46	0.020
Medicare/VA	142	65		65
Medicaid	177	55		60
Private	98	64		57
Education
< High School	269	55	0.070	53	0.110
High School	174	53		57
> High School	138	65		65
Income
Below $10,000	333	54	0.130	54	0.350
$10,000–$34,999	208	60		59
$35,000 and above	40	68		67

P-value from Chi-Squared test.

P-value from likelihood ratio test comparing multivariable models including all other variables in the table and venue type, with versus without the variable of interest.

FPR, false positive rate, a measure of over-reporting equal to 1-specificity.