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. 2016 Aug 15;204(2):483–497. doi: 10.1534/genetics.116.189308

Table 3 .

Empirical type I error rate for common correlation structure when all βj=0, based on multivariate normal distribution

Sample size No. traits Trait correlation Nominal type I error rate
0.05 0.01
100 4 0.2 0.005 0.002
0.5 0.006 0.001
0.8 0.009 0.002
10 0.2 0.015 0
0.5 0.011 0
0.8 0.014 0.003
500 4 0.2 0.003 0
0.5 0.005 0.001
0.8 0.011 0.001
10 0.2 0.005 0.001
0.5 0.003 0.001
0.8 0.009 0.001
1000 4 0.2 0.005 0
0.5 0.008 0
0.8 0.004 0.001
10 0.2 0.011 0.002
0.5 0.012 0
0.8 0.009 0.002