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. 2015 Jul 10;16:217. doi: 10.1186/s12859-015-0641-x

Table 4.

Standard deviation of total discoveries across six DNA methylation differential analysis methods using β values for independent case

n π 1 Standard deviation of total discoveries
Rank test t-test KS test Permutation Empirical Bayes Bump hunting BH Bump hunting q-value
3 0.01 0 0.39 0 0 1.02 0.87 1.03
0.05 0 1.14 0 0 4.79 3.09 3.80
0.10 0 2.48 0 0 6.67 6.2 7.45
0.25 0 7.87 0 0 9.71 11.65 15.38
0.50 0 18.97 0 0 12.78 17.29 24.73
0.75 0 25.68 0 0 14.73 19.56 35.22
0.90 0 26.8 0 0 14.82 19.28 42.44
6 0.01 0.00 1.61 0.00 0.00 1.30 1.67 1.70
0.05 0.00 4.05 0.00 0.00 2.95 3.68 3.69
0.10 4.44 5.22 4.44 4.44 4.02 4.8 5.13
0.25 12.17 7.04 7.04 8.83 6.02 6.93 8.03
0.50 9.47 9.42 9.73 9.01 7.94 9.08 12.65
0.75 9.90 9.82 8.55 10.48 8.65 9.39 21.72
0.90 10.73 10.28 9.10 10.77 9.05 9.84 25.79
12 0.01 1.41 1.03 1.02 0.00 0.99 1.10 1.11
0.05 3.01 2.21 2.14 2.46 2.22 2.33 2.39
0.10 3.32 3.09 2.66 3.58 3.11 3.21 3.42
0.25 5.26 4.48 3.65 5.08 4.35 4.70 5.42
0.50 5.16 5.53 4.28 5.66 5.30 5.71 9.26
0.75 5.07 5.70 3.83 5.76 5.37 5.70 14.69
0.90 5.51 5.60 3.46 5.47 4.95 5.56 20.73
24 0.01 0.96 0.77 0.71 0.00 0.85 0.87 0.91
0.05 1.87 1.64 1.23 1.79 1.76 1.76 1.82
0.10 2.42 2.30 1.98 2.70 2.38 2.40 2.62
0.25 3.21 3.17 2.92 3.75 3.22 3.26 4.15
0.50 3.89 3.78 2.38 3.93 3.74 3.85 7.08
0.75 2.99 3.29 2.57 3.45 3.25 3.31 12.30
0.90 2.24 2.71 1.77 2.80 2.66 2.72 19.26