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

Table 5

MTA output related to the contribution of each taxon to the longitudinal microbial profiling in real and simulated datasets, respectively.

Lloyd-price et al.
Without antibiotic use		With antibiotic use
Bacteroidaceae	−0.968	Bacteroidaceae	−0.975
Clostridiaceae	−0.233	Clostridiaceae	−0.195
Other	−0.093	Other	−0.099
Caporaso et al.
Female		Male
Bacteroidaceae	−0.844	Bacteroidaceae	−0.832
Lachnospiraceae	−0.224	Lachnospiraceae	−0.258
Other	−0.487	Other	−0.450
		Ruminococcaceae	−0.193
Simulated datasets
5 taxa		8 taxa
Taxon 1	0.515	Taxon 1	0.212
Taxon 2	0.772	Taxon 2	0.257
Taxon 3	0.209	Taxon 3	0.642
Taxon 4	0.258	Taxon 4	0.449
Taxon 5	0.164	Taxon 5	0.242
		Taxon 6	0.168
		Taxon 7	0.428
		Taxon 8	0.074