Research Article

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

Table 4

MTA output related to the contribution of each taxon to the longitudinal microbial profiling in IBS scenario. Note that a higher absolute value indicates a stronger contribution to the common trend.

IBS patientHealthy male

Bacteroidaceae0.200Bacteroidaceae0.459
Erysipelotrichaceae0.026Porphyromonadaceae0.244
Lachnospiraceae0.180Rikenellaceae0.476
Porphyromonadaceae0.043Ruminococcaceae0.192
Rikenellaceae0.037Other0.682
Ruminococcaceae0.058
Other0.959