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Table 1 Monte-Carlo estimates of type 1 error rate α'(%)

From: Improving the power for detecting overlapping genes from multiple DNA microarray-derived gene lists

μ t 2

RIUT

BIUT

Fisher

Stouffer

0.0

0.047

0.003

0.050

0.050

0.5

0.044

0.006

0.090

0.085

1.0

0.035

0.015

0.210

0.188

1.5

0.035

0.027

0.405

0.327

2.0

0.040

0.039

0.632

0.476

2.5

0.049

0.048

0.821

0.621

3.0

0.048

0.048

0.931

0.729

3.5

0.047

0.047

0.982

0.808

4.0

0.051

0.051

0.995

0.875

4.5

0.048

0.048

0.999

0.907

5.0

0.046

0.046

1.000

0.930

  1. m = 2, n = 5, and μt 1= 0.0; individual tests were performed at α = 0.05 and each estimate were based on 10000 runs.