Microbial community dissimilarity for source tracking with application in forensic studies

• Kyle M. Carter,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Interdisciplinary Program in Statistics and Data Science, The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States

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• Meng Lu,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Interdisciplinary Program in Statistics and Data Science, The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States

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• Qianwen Luo,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biosystems Engineering, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

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• Hongmei Jiang,

  Roles Conceptualization, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Statistics, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, United States of America

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• Lingling An

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: anling@email.arizona.edu

  Affiliations Interdisciplinary Program in Statistics and Data Science, The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States, Department of Biosystems Engineering, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8273-0776

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