Table 1.
Definitions of different beta diversity measures.
Fig 1.
(A): The average ARIs obtained in simulation experiments 1-3, where the solid, dashed and dotted lines indicate scenarios x.1-x.3, respectively. (B): The dashed and dotted lines represent the cubic smoothing spline of -log(Abundance), where Abundance indicates the average abundance of two clusters along all the elements. The dots represent -log(Delta), where Delta is the absolute mean difference between two clusters along all the elements, × indicates the coordinates with p-values of the Wilcoxon signed-rank test between two clusters that are smaller than 0.001, and ∘ indicates the coordinates with p-values between 0.001 and 0.01.
Fig 2.
Heatmap and values of the pairwise ARIs of clustering results using different beta diversity measures in the autism dataset.
Table 2.
Numbers of OTUs whose adjusted p-values with FDR control are smaller than 0.05, and their frequencies at different abundance levels.