A Dirichlet Autoregressive Model for the Analysis of Microbiota Time-Series Data

Table 2

Predictive efficiency. The sum of absolute errors (SAE ) is shown.

Dataset	Proposed model	Baseline approach	TGP-CODA
Durbán et al.
Healthy male	5.48	3.78	6.05
IBS patient	12.74	19.76	14.39
Lloyd-Price et al.
Crohn’s disease patient (with antibiotic use)	5.30	10.56	8.10
Crohn’s disease patient (without antibiotic use)	2.62	11.28	8.60
Caporaso et al.
Female	3.83	5.22	5.11
Male	6.23	9.27	5.78
Simulated datasets
With 5 simulated taxa	6.61	8.78	7.93
With 8 simulated taxa	2.50	4.49	3.65