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. 2017 May 31;12(5):e0178504. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0178504

Table 2. Empirical type I error of MMTs and SMT for different nominal α levels.

MMTs SMT
Nominal α SKAT SKAT-O Burden Linear Regression Bonferroni correction Linear Regression BH correction
5 ∙ 10−2 4.94 ∙ 10−2 5.22 ∙ 10−2 5.01 ∙ 10−2 4.39 ∙ 10−2 4.93 ∙ 10−2
1 ∙ 10−2 0.97 ∙ 10−2 1.10 ∙ 10−2 1.00 ∙ 10−2 0.90 ∙ 10−2 0.99 ∙ 10−2
1 ∙ 10−3 0.94 ∙ 10−3 1.12 ∙ 10−3 1.00 ∙ 10−3 0.88 ∙ 10−3 0.97 ∙ 10−3
1 ∙ 10−4 0.92 ∙ 10−4 1.17 ∙ 10−4 1.03 ∙ 10−4 0.91 ∙ 10−4 0.98 ∙ 10−4
1 ∙ 10−5 0.92 ∙ 10−5 1.10 ∙ 10−5 1.12 ∙ 10−5 1.16 ∙ 10−5 1.25 ∙ 10−5
2.5 ∙ 10−6 2.40 ∙ 10−6 2.40 ∙ 10−6 3.50 ∙ 10−6 2.40 ∙ 10−6 2.90 ∙ 10−6

Data was generated from the null model with size n = 1,000 for m = 10,000,000 replicates.