biocore / qiime

Official QIIME 1 software repository. QIIME 2 (https://qiime2.org) has succeeded QIIME 1 as of January 2018.
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What's the difference between collapsed modes "mean vs sum" #2206

Closed genetalks-fred closed 6 years ago

genetalks-fred commented 6 years ago

It's may be a stupid question, I'm confused with the difference of collapsed modes, Use sum or mean method collapsed sample's counts in to Groups, the relative abundance of bacterias should be concord or am i misunderstand? thanks for help!

jairideout commented 6 years ago

Can you please post your question on the QIIME 1 forum? That's where we provide user support for QIIME 1.