Abstract
The Microbiome Regression-based Kernel Association Test (MiRKAT) is widely used in testing for the association between microbiome compositions and an outcome of interest. The MiRKAT statistic is derived as a variance-component score test in a kernel machine regression-based generalized linear mixed model. In this brief report, we show that the MiRKAT statistic is proportional to the R 2 (coefficient of determination) statistic in a similarity matrix regression, which characterizes the fraction of variability in outcome similarity, explained by microbiome similarity (up to a constant).
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Article number | 79 |
| Journal | Processes |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Feb 1 2019 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Bioengineering
- Chemical Engineering (miscellaneous)
- Process Chemistry and Technology