Table 3

Type I error rates and power in the presence of ties. The type I error rates and power were evaluated under different error distributions and varying number of ties. The values inside and outside parenthesis are type I error rates and power, respectively. The cell sample size N = 5.

Dist
# of ties
FT
PFT
MRT

N
2
0.729 (0.051)
0.726 (0.051)
0.684 (0.052)

5
0.730 (0.056)
0.730 (0.054)
0.682 (0.052)

10
0.724 (0.053)
0.715 (0.051)
0.687 (0.051)

U
2
0.589 (0.054)
0.577 (0.052)
0.495 (0.052)

5
0.580 (0.050)
0.568 (0.046)
0.493 (0.051)

10
0.554 (0.048)
0.539 (0.046)
0.482 (0.048)

LN
2
0.391 (0.032)
0.455 (0.041)
0.581 (0.048)

5
0.411 (0.039)
0.465 (0.054)
0.585 (0.056)

10
0.412 (0.031)
0.448 (0.043)
0.589 (0.045)

CN
2
0.563 (0.038)
0.594 (0.051)
0.730 (0.053)

5
0.575 (0.040)
0.599 (0.048)
0.735 (0.056)

10
0.597 (0.044)
0.613 (0.054)
0.741 (0.057)

C
2
0.244 (0.023)
0.397 (0.057)
0.533 (0.052)

5
0.262 (0.022)
0.370 (0.050)
0.562 (0.049)

10
0.292 (0.030)
0.368 (0.048)
0.558 (0.055)

Gao and Song BMC Bioinformatics 2005 6:186   doi:10.1186/1471-2105-6-186