Power and Sample Size Calculations for Microbiome Data

In this chapter, we discuss hypothesis testing, power and sample size calculations of microbiome data with implementation in R.

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Authors and Affiliations

1. Department of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA Yinglin Xia & Jun Sun
2. School of Social Work, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA Ding-Geng Chen
3. Department of Biostatistics, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA Ding-Geng Chen
4. Department of Statistics, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa Ding-Geng Chen

1. Yinglin Xia