Simple and flexible sign and rank-based methods for testing for differential abundance in microbiome studies.
Microbiome data obtained with amplicon sequencing are considered as compositional data. It has been argued that these data can be analysed after appropriate transformation to log-ratios, but ratios and logarithms cause problems with the many zeroes in typical microbiome experiments. We demonstrate t...
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Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2023-01-01
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Series: | PLoS ONE |
Online Access: | https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0292055&type=printable |