Latent variable modeling for the microbiome

K Sankaran, SP Holmes - Biostatistics, 2019 - academic.oup.com
The human microbiome is a complex ecological system, and describing its structure and
function under different environmental conditions is important from both basic scientific and …

Robust and scalable models of microbiome dynamics

T Gibson, G Gerber - International Conference on Machine …, 2018 - proceedings.mlr.press
Microbes are everywhere, including in and on our bodies, and have been shown to play key
roles in a variety of prevalent human diseases. Consequently, there has been intense …

Bayesian nonparametric ordination for the analysis of microbial communities

B Ren, S Bacallado, S Favaro, S Holmes… - Journal of the American …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Human microbiome studies use sequencing technologies to measure the abundance of
bacterial species or Operational Taxonomic Units (OTUs) in samples of biological material …

An integrative Bayesian Dirichlet-multinomial regression model for the analysis of taxonomic abundances in microbiome data

WD Wadsworth, R Argiento, M Guindani… - BMC …, 2017 - Springer
Abstract Background The Human Microbiome has been variously associated with the
immune-regulatory mechanisms involved in the prevention or development of many non …

Mimix: A bayesian mixed-effects model for microbiome data from designed experiments

NS Grantham, Y Guan, BJ Reich… - Journal of the …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Recent advances in bioinformatics have made high-throughput microbiome data widely
available, and new statistical tools are required to maximize the information gained from …

A common atoms model for the Bayesian nonparametric analysis of nested data

F Denti, F Camerlenghi, M Guindani… - Journal of the American …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
The use of large datasets for targeted therapeutic interventions requires new ways to
characterize the heterogeneity observed across subgroups of a specific population. In …

A Bayesian zero-inflated negative binomial regression model for the integrative analysis of microbiome data

S Jiang, G Xiao, AY Koh, J Kim, Q Li, X Zhan - Biostatistics, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Microbiome omics approaches can reveal intriguing relationships between the human
microbiome and certain disease states. Along with identification of specific bacteria taxa …

A Bayesian model of microbiome data for simultaneous identification of covariate associations and prediction of phenotypic outcomes

MD Koslovsky, KL Hoffman, CR Daniel… - The Annals of Applied …, 2020 - projecteuclid.org
One of the major research questions regarding human microbiome studies is the feasibility
of designing interventions that modulate the composition of the microbiome to promote …

Statistical challenges in longitudinal microbiome data analysis

S Kodikara, S Ellul, KA Lê Cao - Briefings in Bioinformatics, 2022 - academic.oup.com
The microbiome is a complex and dynamic community of microorganisms that co-exist
interdependently within an ecosystem, and interact with its host or environment. Longitudinal …

Zero-inflated generalized Dirichlet multinomial regression model for microbiome compositional data analysis

ZZ Tang, G Chen - Biostatistics, 2019 - academic.oup.com
There is heightened interest in using high-throughput sequencing technologies to quantify
abundances of microbial taxa and linking the abundance to human diseases and traits …