6 citations · 7 across the 3 of their papers we have counts for
3 papers
stat.ME2018
Identifying Heritable Communities of Microbiome by Root-Unifrac and Wishart Distribution
Yunfan Tang, Dan Nicolae
We introduce a method to identify heritable microbiome communities when the input is a pairwise dissimilarity matrix among all samples. Current methods target each taxon individual…
stat.AP2017★ 6 cited
Mixed Effect Dirichlet-Tree Multinomial for Longitudinal Microbiome Data and Weight Prediction
Yunfan Tang, Dan L. Nicolae
Quantifying the relation between gut microbiome and body weight can provide insights into personalized strategies for improving digestive health. In this paper, we present an algor…
stat.AP2016★ 1 cited
A phylogenetic scan test on Dirichlet-tree multinomial model for microbiome data
Yunfan Tang, Li Ma, Dan L. Niclolae
In this paper we introduce the phylogenetic scan test (PhyloScan) for investigating cross-group differences in microbiome compositions using the Dirichlet-tree multinomial (DTM) mo…