Measuring associations between the microbiota and repeated measures of continuous clinical variables using a lasso-penalized generalized linear mixed model
Abstract Background Human microbiome studies in clinical settings generally focus on distinguishing the microbiota in health from that in disease at a specific point in time. However, microbiome samples may be associated with disease severity or continuous clinical health indicators that are often a...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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BMC
2018-06-01
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Series: | BioData Mining |
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Online Access: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13040-018-0173-9 |