. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 May 1.

Published in final edited form as: Stat Appl Genet Mol Biol. 2015 Nov;14(5):443–464. doi: 10.1515/sagmb-2014-0050

Table 1.

Distributions used for the error term in the simulation study

Distribution	Standard deviation	Skewness	Kurtosis
Normal	1	0	0
Log-normal	2.2	6.2	110.9
Cauchy^a	-	-	-
Empirical SDMA distribution^b	1	6.4	78.3

The variance and higher moments do not exist.

Distribution was standardized to have a mean 0 and variance 1.