Waste Not, Want Not: Why Rarefying Microbiome Data Is Inadmissible

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  McMurdie, Paul J ^a   Holmes, Susan ^a  

^a STANFORD LAW SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE ENCODING; STATISTICS;

BIOLOGICAL VARIABILITY; COUNT DATUM; CURRENT PRACTICES; HETEROSCEDASTICITY; MICROBIOME; MIXTURE MODELING; NORMALISATION; SIMPLE++; SIZE DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL THEORY;

DNA SEQUENCES;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DNA SEQUENCE; KERNEL METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; METAGENOME; MICROBIOME; PHYLOGENY; RNA SEQUENCE; MICROFLORA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; THEORETICAL MODEL;

MICROBIOTA; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA;

EID: 84901363655     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003531     Document Type: Article

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