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Orchestrating Microbiome Analysis
https://microbiome.github.io/OMA
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Rename cross-correlation analysis to cross-association analysis #517

Open artur-sannikov opened 3 weeks ago

artur-sannikov commented 3 weeks ago

When one searches for cross-correlation, they'll see that it's mostly related to time series correlations. That can become a font of confusion for beginners.

Might "cross-association" reflect better the book's idea? Or just simply call it "correlation analysis" because cross-association is also barely mentioned in multi-omics. I found one paper.

This term is used in chapters:

  1. Community Typing (Clustering)
  2. Multi-Assay Analyses
  3. Exercises
TuomasBorman commented 3 weeks ago

I would go with "correlation analysis". That might be something that one might try to find from google

artur-sannikov commented 3 weeks ago

Agreed. I can open a pull request if approved.