Correction to:BMC Bioinformatics (2021) 22:61 https://doi.org/10.1186/s12859-021-03979-y

Following publication of the original article [1], the authors identified an error in Table 1. The correct Table 1 is given below.

Table 1 Estimated type I error for different sample sizes and test functions

The author group has been updated above and the original article [1] has been corrected.