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Table 7 BINNED data: ENT estimates with 95% confidence intervals in brackets, and type I error estimation from the permutation procedure for various simulated outcome measures: continuous, discrete-binary, discrete-count, time-to-event survival

From: Multiple-testing correction in metabolome-wide association studies

Outcome type

Continuous

Binary

Count

Survival

MESA Binned data

ENT

R (%)

Type I error (%)

ENT

R (%)

Type I error (%)

ENT

R (%)

Type I error (%)

ENT

R (%)

Type I error (%)

Identity

482 (442;506)

74

5.16

409 (379;443)

62

5.11

221 (198;256)

34

4.71

466 (431;505)

71

4.97

Multivariate log-normal

351 (316;388)

54

5.02

338 (310;380)

52

5.01

344 (305;377)

53

4.71

344 (309;366)

53

4.92

Multivariate normal

376 (345;423)

57

5.04

355 (318;395)

54

5.21

366 (326;404)

56

4.69

361 (331;397)

55

4.81

  1. \(K=5000\) permutations. ANT=655