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Published in final edited form as: Genet Epidemiol. 2009 Apr;33(3):217–227. doi: 10.1002/gepi.20372

Table 3.

False-positive rate estimates of association tests for the mixture of the continuous and binary traits with the use of EGEE-based bivariate analyses and univariate analyses across various simulation scenarios under the significance level α = 0.05.

Sample Size N	Allele Frequency q	Correlation Coefficient r	Analytical Method^a
Sample Size N	Allele Frequency q	Correlation Coefficient r	B_EGEE	U_b	U_e
150	0.05	0.45	0.041	0.045	0.050
		0.15	0.041	0.047	0.048
		0	0.041	0.047	0.047
		-0.15	0.044	0.047	0.048
		-0.45	0.042	0.046	0.052
	0.15	0.45	0.047	0.047	0.053
		0.15	0.047	0.048	0.048
		0	0.051	0.050	0.050
		-0.15	0.048	0.050	0.050
		-0.45	0.050	0.051	0.053
300	0.05	0.45	0.044	0.050	0.055
		0.15	0.046	0.045	0.053
		0	0.044	0.052	0.052
		-0.15	0.046	0.046	0.053
		-0.45	0.046	0.045	0.057
	0.15	0.45	0.049	0.047	0.051
		0.15	0.049	0.050	0.052
		0	0.051	0.050	0.050
		-0.15	0.049	0.051	0.051
		-0.45	0.047	0.049	0.052

^Note

—See note to Table 1 for definition of a.