Nonparametric microbial interdependence test
Perform nonparametric microbial interdependence test to determine
longitudinal sample similarity as a function of temporal microbial
composition. For more details and citation, please see
doi.org/10.1002/gepi.22065
Parameters
- table : FeatureTable[RelativeFrequency]
- Feature table to use for microbial interdependence test.
- metadata : Metadata
- Sample metadata file containing individual_id_column.
- individual_id_column : Str
- Metadata column containing IDs for individual subjects.
- corr_method : Str % Choices('kendall', 'pearson', 'spearman'), optional
- The temporal correlation test to be applied.
- dist_method : Str % Choices('fro', 'nuc'), optional
- Temporal distance method, see numpy.linalg.norm for details.
Returns
- distance_matrix : DistanceMatrix
- The resulting distance matrix.