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Table 1 Type I error rates (P) with 20,000 simulations and 200 observations per community

From: Assessing community variation and randomness in public health indicators

 

Population Incidence Rate

 

0.5

0.10

Number of Communities

Q DL

Pearson's χ2

Q DL

Pearson's χ2

20

0.0602

0.0525

0.0836

0.0494

30

0.0601

0.0496

0.0917

0.0498

50

0.0619

0.0496

0.1060

0.0489

100

0.0642

0.0485

0.1295

0.0502

  1. Note: 95% confidence bounds for P = 0.05 are 0.0470, 0.0531