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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: Twin Res Hum Genet. 2015 Jan 13;18(1):19–27. doi: 10.1017/thg.2014.81

Table 4.

Censored data simulation: Percent of LRT statistics under the null hypothesis exceeding critical value for pairs of nested models based on 2000 replicates of N=1000.

% Type I error rates

DGM LRT df Censored on M Censored on P
Model for HA Model for H0 Condition of H0 10 5 1 10 5 1
Cholesky with G×M (3) NL main effects with G×M (4) large β2 4 4.9 2.2 0.3 9.3 4.8 0.9
small β2 4 4.9 1.6 0.3 5.4 2.2 0.5
NL main effects (4*) large β2 7 5.7 2.8 0.5 82.5 82.4 81.7
small β2 7 5.5 2.5 0.5 100 100 100
Cholesky (2) high rAM 6 23.0 15.1 4.2 100 100 100
low rAM 6 50.2 37.5 16.2 100 100 100

NL main effects with G×M (4) NL main effects (4*) large β2 3 8.7 4.5 0.9 83.7 83.1 81.7
small β2 3 8.8 4.2 0.7 100 100 100

NL main effects (4*) Lin main effectsa (4†) 1 10.4 5.3 1.1 67.3 54.0 30.8

Cholesky (2) Lin Main effects (4†) 2 8.0 4.3 0.7 8.8 4.5 0.5

Note: P refers to a phenotype of interest, M refers to a putative moderator. LRT refers to the likelihood ratio test.

a

DGM does not contain G×M effects.