Microbiome Based Sum of Powered Score (MiSPU) Tests
Finding the correspondence OTUs for each taxa
The Dirichlet Distribution
Generalized UniFrac distances for comparing microbial communities.
Microbiome Based Sum of Powered Score (MiSPU) Tests
microbiome based sum of powered score (MiSPU)
ranking the OTUs
OTU counts simulation
There is an increasing interest in investigating how the compositions of microbial communities are associated with human health and disease. In this package, we present a novel global testing method called aMiSPU, that is highly adaptive and thus high powered across various scenarios, alleviating the issue with the choice of a phylogenetic distance. Our simulations and real data analysis demonstrated that aMiSPU test was often more powerful than several competing methods while correctly controlling type I error rates.