Statistical aspects of omics data analysis using the random compound covariate

BMC Systems Biology

Table 1 Empirical type I error rates

Method	n	cen.	The total number of genes
			10	30	50	70
SRC _B	50	10%	0.052	0.057	0.051	0.048
		40%	0.041	0.047	0.045	0.046
	75	10%	0.052	0.048	0.045	0.046
		40%	0.044	0.046	0.050	0.046
	100	10%	0.056	0.049	0.052	0.052
		40%	0.045	0.044	0.048	0.050
SRC _W	50	10%	0.058	0.046	0.052	0.050
		40%	0.034	0.046	0.036	0.043
	75	10%	0.046	0.042	0.051	0.051
		40%	0.044	0.038	0.044	0.040
	100	10%	0.051	0.046	0.048	0.060
		40%	0.044	0.041	0.046	0.048
DC _B	50	10%	0.937	1.000	1.000	1.000
		40%	0.910	1.000	1.000	1.000
	75	10%	0.944	1.000	1.000	1.000
		40%	0.946	1.000	1.000	1.000
	100	10%	0.957	1.000	1.000	1.000
		40%	0.952	1.000	1.000	1.000
DC _W	50	10%	0.926	1.000	1.000	1.000
		40%	0.916	1.000	1.000	1.000
	75	10%	0.920	1.000	1.000	1.000
		40%	0.936	1.000	1.000	1.000
	100	10%	0.929	1.000	1.000	1.000
		40%	0.933	1.000	1.000	1.000

Empirical type I error rates for comparing SRC_B, SRC_W DC_B and DC_W methods. The value of β was set to 0.

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