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

Current practice in the normalization of microbiome count data is inefficient in the statistical sense. For apparently historical reasons, the common approach is either to use simple proportions (which does not address heteroscedasticity) or to use rarefying of counts, even though both of these appr...

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Autores principales: McMurdie, Paul J., Holmes, Susan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3974642/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24699258
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003531