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Table 2 The empirical Type I error rates (× 100) and power (× 100) of the six tests when methylation values were generated from Beta distributions. The numbers of non-diseased and diseased samples are (100, 100)

From: Robust joint score tests in the application of DNA methylation data analysis

Scenarios

Outlier

α(%)

jointLRT

KS

AW

iAW.Lev

iAW.BF

iAW.TM

eqM&eqV

No

5

5.7

3.5

5.4

5.4

5.4

5.5

(Type I error)

No

1

1.5

0.5

1.0

1.1

1.2

1.1

 

No

0.5

0.8

0.3

0.5

0.5

0.5

0.5

diffM&eqV

No

5

96.8

94.7

97.5

97.2

97.4

97.4

 

No

1

88.4

86.7

91.7

90.5

91.0

90.9

 

No

0.5

83.1

77.5

87.8

86.6

87.9

87.4

eqM&diffV

No

5

88.1

18.9

86.8

83.1

82.7

83.0

 

No

1

68.6

6.2

65.8

62.2

60.6

61.3

 

No

0.5

60.4

2.5

55.6

53.5

52.6

53.2

diffM&diffV

No

5

83.5

64.5

88.6

84.9

85.8

85.9

 

No

1

58.1

42.8

70.4

63.0

64.5

64.8

 

No

0.5

48.9

30.2

60.6

54.6

57.6

56.8

eqM&eqV

Yes

5

11.0

3.6

3.8

5

4.9

4.9

(Type I error)

Yes

1

3.3

0.6

0.7

1.0

1.0

1.0

 

Yes

0.5

1.8

0.3

0.3

0.5

0.5

0.5

diffM&eqV

Yes

5

97.6

95.9

98.8

98.6

98.8

98.7

 

Yes

1

89.2

87.7

94.8

93.4

94.0

93.7

 

Yes

0.5

82.6

79.6

91.6

89.3

89.9

89.8

eqM&diffV

Yes

5

31.9

15.7

24.9

61.2

59.8

60.6

 

Yes

1

11.5

5.1

6.7

33.0

31.3

32.1

 

Yes

0.5

6.6

2.0

4.0

23.2

21.3

22.0

diffM&diffV

Yes

5

26.4

59.9

36.6

52.6

53.4

53.6

 

Yes

1

8.4

38.3

15.4

24.9

25.7

25.5

 

Yes

0.5

4.5

26.0

10.6

16.5

17.2

17.2