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Table 4 The empirical Type I error rates (× 100) and power (× 100) for the six tests when methylation values generated from chi-squared 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

13.8

4.2

5.0

6.3

5.3

5.2

(Type I errror)

No

1

6.3

0.7

0.9

1.5

1.3

1.2

 

No

0.5

4.4

0.4

0.4

0.8

0.5

0.5

diffM&eqV

No

5

90.2

99.7

99.8

99.6

99.9

99.9

 

No

1

53.8

97.1

99.0

97.1

99.4

99.4

 

No

0.5

40.9

95.9

98.1

94.9

99.2

99.0

eqM&diffV

No

5

18.6

10.2

29.2

29.6

35.4

34.6

 

No

1

5.8

2.1

10.3

11.4

14.7

15.0

 

No

0.5

3.9

1.3

6.9

7.0

11.1

10.4

diffM&diffV

No

5

18.4

42.2

59.9

54.9

70.6

69.0

 

No

1

3.7

17.9

35.7

27.5

45.5

43.8

 

No

0.5

2.1

13.9

27.9

18.9

38.9

35.6

eqM&eqV

Yes

5

20.1

4.0

4.8

6.7

5.5

5.3

(Type I error)

Yes

1

10.3

0.7

0.7

1.7

1.1

1.1

 

Yes

0.5

7.8

0.5

0.2

0.8

0.5

0.5

diffM&eqV

Yes

5

67.9

99.5

99.9

99.4

99.9

99.9

 

Yes

1

23.7

96.5

99.1

96.4

99.4

99.3

 

Yes

0.5

12.9

95.0

98.7

94.0

99.0

98.8

eqM&diffV

Yes

5

27.5

9.5

34.0

39.7

41.0

41.5

 

Yes

1

9.9

1.8

11.9

16.6

19.3

19.0

 

Yes

0.5

6.1

1.1

7.3

11.2

14.0

13.7

diffM&diffV

Yes

5

21.9

39.8

65.2

60.4

73.2

72.1

 

Yes

1

6.3

16.3

39.9

31.7

49.7

47.7

 

Yes

0.5

3.4

12.2

32.5

23.9

41.8

39.7