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Table 4 Average proportion of false positives for two-tailed tests (unadjusted and corrected for multiple testing). Results for the six test statistics and two significance levels are averaged over all classes of disparity magnitude. Significance levels are either unadjusted or reduced using the Bonferroni correction, the Holm's procedure or the False Discovery Rate (FDR) approach.

From: A comparative analysis of aspatial statistics for detecting racial disparities in cancer mortality rates

Test statistic

α = 0.05

α = 0.10

 

Unadj.

Bonf.

Holm

FDR

Unadj.

Bonf.

Holm

FDR

Prostate

        

DispI

0.048

0.0

0.0

0.002

0.096

0.001

0.001

0.005

DispII

0.093

0.025

0.025

0.039

0.139

0.027

0.027

0.047

DispIII

0.032

0.0

0.0

0.001

0.065

0.0

0.0

0.002

DispIV

0.063

0.012

0.012

0.020

0.098

0.013

0.013

0.024

DispV

0.091

0.016

0.016

0.031

0.139

0.018

0.018

0.039

DispVI

0.042

0.0

0.0

0.001

0.087

0.0

0.0

0.003

Lung

        

DispI

0.049

0.0

0.0

0.004

0.098

0.0

0.0

0.009

DispII

0.068

0.016

0.016

0.022

0.115

0.016

0.016

0.028

DispIII

0.039

0.0

0.0

0.003

0.079

0.0

0.0

0.006

DispIV

0.054

0.009

0.009

0.014

0.095

0.009

0.009

0.018

DispV

0.068

0.012

0.012

0.021

0.116

0.013

0.013

0.027

DispVI

0.047

0.0

0.0

0.003

0.095

0.0

0.0

0.008