Multidimensional scaling informed by F-statistic: Visualizing grouped microbiome data with inference

• Hyungseok Kim ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: Global Manufacturing Sciences and Technology, Sanofi, Framingham, Massachusetts, USA

  ¶These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Institute for Data, Systems, and Society, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4364-946X

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• Soobin Kim ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Software, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Statistics, University of California, Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

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• Jeffrey A. Kimbrel,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Physical and Life Sciences Directorate, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California, United States of America

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• Megan M. Morris,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education, Department of Energy, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA

  Affiliation Physical and Life Sciences Directorate, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California, United States of America

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• Xavier Mayali,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Physical and Life Sciences Directorate, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California, United States of America

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• Cullen R. Buie

  Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: crb@mit.edu

  Affiliations Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2275-4570

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