Table 2 Comparison of α and statistical power for iterated false positive rate. The values are the same as those given in Table 1 except the significance level (α) was iterated for the PE method until its power matched that of the MP method where α was held constant.

2

0

-

0.05

-

0.0505

-

0.2146

2

2

0.190

0.05

0.0514

0.0489

0.3374

0.3336

2

4

0.120

0.05

0.0483

0.0522

0.3783

0.3840

2

6

0.095

0.05

0.0496

0.0514

0.4302

0.4267

2

16

0.067

0.05

0.0491

0.0508

0.4794

0.4738

3

0

0.190

0.05

0.0507

0.0513

0.4576

0.4599

3

2

0.115

0.05

0.0531

0.0462

0.5324

0.5308

3

4

0.095

0.05

0.0475

0.0486

0.5611

0.5641

3

6

0.082

0.05

0.0536

0.0500

0.5994

0.6053

3

16

0.066

0.05

0.0511

0.0472

0.6531

0.6469