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SUBMITTER: Martin BD
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7514055 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Martin Bryan D BD Witten Daniela D Willis Amy D AD
The annals of applied statistics 20200301 1
Using a sample from a population to estimate the proportion of the population with a certain category label is a broadly important problem. In the context of microbiome studies, this problem arises when researchers wish to use a sample from a population of microbes to estimate the population proportion of a particular taxon, known as the taxon's <i>relative abundance.</i> In this paper, we propose a beta-binomial model for this task. Like existing models, our model allows for a taxon's relative ...[more]