Jaccard/Tanimoto similarity test and estimation methods for biological presence-absence data
Abstract Background A survey of presences and absences of specific species across multiple biogeographic units (or bioregions) are used in a broad area of biological studies from ecology to microbiology. Using binary presence-absence data, we evaluate species co-occurrences that help elucidate relat...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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BMC
2019-12-01
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Series: | BMC Bioinformatics |
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Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1186/s12859-019-3118-5 |