Table 3.

The type 1 error rates of p-value combination methods.

Sparsity	Fisher	MinP	Kost	Cauchy	Simes	Stouffer
0.3	0.032	0	0.005	0	0	0.086
0.5	0.09	0.029	0.045	0.057	0.032	0.096
0.7	0.01	0	0	0	0	0.016
0.8	0	0	0	0	0	0.005

Bold value indicates to inflated type I errors.