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. 2019 Dec 19;106(1):3–12. doi: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2019.11.012

Table 1.

Type I Error Rates of Unadjusted and Robust Versions of Burden, SKAT, and SKAT-O and Hybrid Method

Case: Control Burden Robust Burden SKAT Robust SKAT SKAT-O Robust SKAT-O Hybrid SKAT-O
α=102

1:1 1.00 1.00 0.99 0.99 1.11 1.11 1.09
1:9 0.99 1.00 1.01 1.01 1.13 1.13 1.09
1:49 1.02 0.95 1.44 1.22 1.44 1.23 1.27
1:99 1.07 0.91 1.92 1.41 1.82 1.33 1.53

α=104

1:1 1.02 1.00 0.99 1.03 1.27 1.32 1.27
1:9 1.12 0.99 1.39 1.14 1.65 1.40 1.52
1:49 2.43 0.97 6.31 1.65 6.16 1.79 4.54
1:99 3.95 1.02 13.48 2.13 12.77 2.17 8.89

α=2.5×106

1:1 1.11 1.03 1.24 1.54 1.38 1.38 1.40
1:9 1.29 0.77 2.47 1.45 2.51 1.49 2.23
1:49 6.88 1.06 28.27 1.91 23.70 1.98 16.69
1:99 16.34 0.90 89.53 1.81 71.32 1.60 42.59

A total of 107 datasets of 1 kb regions were generated to estimate type I error rates. Each cell represents an empirical type I error rate divided by significance level α. The sample size was 50,000.