Table 2 Simulation results of the FWER for non-normal distributed data. This table shows the results for similar settings as in Table 2. Again, different levels of sample sizes, variances and correlation coefficients were tested, however non-normal distributed data was generated.

${\theta }_{lower}^{-1}$ = θ _upper

n _i

σ

ρ

weak

strong

weak

strong

1

5

10

0.1

3.31

2.87

0

0

1.5

5

10

0.1

2.40

1.57

0

0

5

5

10

0.1

2.40

1.78

0

0

1

10

10

0.1

4.15

4.32

4.88

4.18

1.5

10

10

0.1

2.48

2.64

3.46

3.42

5

10

10

0.1

2.48

2.37

3.46

3.15

1

5

10

0.9

3.19

2.96

0.80

0.39

1.5

5

10

0.9

2.78

2.45

0.83

1.12

5

5

10

0.9

2.78

2.64

0.84

1.07

1

10

10

0.9

4.33

4.48

4.65

4.25

1.5

10

10

0.9

3.51

3.59

3.26

0.33

5

10

10

0.9

3.51

3.49

3.26

0.33

1

5

5

0.9

3.16

3.13

0.80

0.46

1.5

5

5

0.9

2.77

2.8

0.84

1.12

5

5

5

0.9

2.77

2.44

0.84

1.12

1

5

15

0.9

3.17

2.73

0.80

0.31

1.5

5

15

0.9

2.76

2.44

0.80

1.09

5

5

15

0.9

2.76

2.56

0.84

1.03