Assessment and Selection of Competing Models for Zero-Inflated Microbiome Data.

Typical data in a microbiome study consist of the operational taxonomic unit (OTU) counts that have the characteristic of excess zeros, which are often ignored by investigators. In this paper, we compare the performance of different competing methods to model data with zero inflated features through...

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Main Authors: Lizhen Xu, Andrew D Paterson, Williams Turpin, Wei Xu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4493133?pdf=render