Multivariate Community Analysis

Abstract

The main goal of microbiome community studies is to compare the composition of different communities (beta diversity). In Chap. 6, we introduced beta diversities and illustrated how to calculate beta diversity indices. After we obtain beta diversity indices, we can conduct statistical analysis on them. The beta diversity analyses in studies of microbiome fall into two categories: exploratory techniques and statistical tests of significance. We illustrated clustering and ordination in Chap. 7.