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Table 3 The empirical Type I error rates (× 100) and power (× 100) for the six tests when methylation values generated from mixtures of two normal 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

2.4

3.8

4.9

9.4

5.4

12.3

(Type I error)

No

1

0.4

0.7

0.8

3.2

1.3

4.5

 

No

0.5

0.2

0.4

0.4

2.0

0.8

2.8

diffM&eqV

No

5

16.6

58.4

74.9

56.2

87.0

53.6

 

No

1

4.0

30.8

55.1

26.6

65.8

25.5

 

No

0.5

2.3

25.5

45.1

17.8

53.9

19.6

eqM&diffV

No

5

34.5

98.1

55.1

88.8

57.8

69.9

 

No

1

10.5

81.1

36.1

71.6

32.4

47.7

 

No

0.5

6.4

72.7

28.9

62.5

23.6

40.5

diffM&diffV

No

5

37.7

98.7

61.1

92.0

68.3

76.4

 

No

1

12.0

85.2

41.5

77.2

42.6

54.3

 

No

0.5

7.8

78.1

34.0

68.3

32.2

46.7

eqM&eqV

Yes

5

25.0

3.9

2.8

6.5

4.8

8.1

(Type I error)

Yes

1

6.8

0.7

0.4

1.4

1.0

2.1

 

Yes

0.5

3.7

0.4

0.2

0.7

0.6

1.3

diffM&eqV

Yes

5

4.2

59.4

16.3

21.5

78.1

34.9

 

Yes

1

1.1

32.1

5.1

5.2

55.7

9.8

 

Yes

0.5

0.5

26.5

3.3

3.5

44.7

5.2

eqM&diffV

Yes

5

0.6

97.4

14.4

80.2

49.6

63.3

 

Yes

1

0.1

79.5

5.1

59.8

27.4

39.4

 

Yes

0.5

0.0

71.2

3.5

54.1

19.7

31.5

diffM&diffV

Yes

5

1.0

98.1

19.5

84.6

61.0

71.1

 

Yes

1

0.2

83.6

7.5

65.7

37.5

47.0

 

Yes

0.5

0.1

76.8

5.6

60.1

27.9

38.1