A distance based multisample test for high-dimensional compositional data with applications to the human microbiome
Abstract Background Compositional data refer to the data that lie on a simplex, which are common in many scientific domains such as genomics, geology and economics. As the components in a composition must sum to one, traditional tests based on unconstrained data become inappropriate, and new statist...
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| Language: | English |
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BMC
2020-12-01
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| Series: | BMC Bioinformatics |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1186/s12859-020-3530-x |