| adjust.data.by.covariates | Adjusting data (distance matrix and OTU table) by covariates |
| avgdist.squared | Averaging the squared distance matrices each calculated from a rarefied OTU table |
| jaccard.mean | Expected value of the Jaccard distance matrix |
| ldm | Testing hypotheses about the microbiome using a linear decomposition model (LDM) |
| permanovaFL | PERMANOVA test of association based on the Freedman-Lane permutation scheme |
| sim.meta | Metadata of the simulated microbiome samples |
| sim.otu.tab | OTU count table of the simulated microbiome samples |
| sim.otu.tab5 | Filtered OTU count table of the simulated microbiome samples |
| throat.meta | Metadata of the throat microbiome samples |
| throat.otu.tab | OTU count table from 16S sequencing of the throat microbiome samples |
| throat.otu.tab5 | Filtered OTU count table from 16S sequencing of the throat microbiome samples |
| throat.tree | UPGMA tree of the OTUs from 16S sequencing of the throat microbiome samples |
| unifrac.mean | Expected value of the unweighted UniFrac distance matrix |