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Microbiome data are complex in nature, involving high dimensionality, compositionally, zero inflation, and taxonomic hierarchy. Compositional data reside in a simplex that does not admit the standard Euclidean geometry. Most existing…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-11-12 Gen Li , Yan Li , Kun Chen

This paper introduces a rectified and renormalized Fisher-Bingham model for compositional data with zeros, motivated in part by the presence of zeros in microbiota studies. The approach represents compositions through a square-root…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-04-29 Eugene Han , Marahi Perez-Tamayo , Hannah D. Holscher , Ruoqing Zhu

High-dimensional compositional data, such as those from human microbiome studies, pose unique statistical challenges due to the simplex constraint and excess zeros. While dimension reduction is indispensable for analyzing such data,…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-09-09 Junyoung Park , Cheolwoo Park , Jeongyoun Ahn

In real world applications dealing with compositional datasets, it is easy to face the presence of structural zeros. The latter arise when, due to physical limitations, one or more variables are intrinsically zero for a subset of the…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-10-28 Francesco Porro , Fabio Rapallo , Sara Sommariva

In compositional data analysis an observation is a vector containing non-negative values, only the relative sizes of which are considered to be of interest. Without loss of generality, a compositional vector can be taken to be a vector of…

Methodology · Statistics 2015-06-18 Michail Tsagris , Simon Preston , Andrew T. A. Wood

This paper is motivated by the recent interest in the analysis of high dimen- sional microbiome data. A key feature of this data is the presence of `structural zeros' which are microbes missing from an observation vector due to an…

Applications · Statistics 2016-05-23 Abhishek Kaul , Ori Davidov , Shyamal D. Peddada

The growing use of high-throughput sequencing (HTS) has enabled the large-scale production of compositional count data, driving progress in microbiome research. However, such count data are often high-dimensional, over-dispersed, and…

Other Statistics · Statistics 2026-05-22 Wenqi Tang , Kamila Fačevicová , Klaus Nordhausen , Sara Taskinen

Compositional data, such as human gut microbiomes, consist of non-negative variables whose only the relative values to other variables are available. Analyzing compositional data such as human gut microbiomes needs a careful treatment of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-05-04 Binglin Li , Jeongyoun Ahn

Discrete data such as counts of microbiome taxa resulting from next-generation sequencing are routinely encountered in bioinformatics. Taxa count data in microbiome studies are typically high-dimensional, over-dispersed, and can only reveal…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-06-23 Yuan Fang , Sanjeena Subedi

Compositional data, also referred to as simplicial data, naturally arise in many scientific domains such as geochemistry, microbiology, and economics. In such domains, obtaining sensible lower-dimensional representations and modes of…

Compositional data sets are ubiquitous in science, including geology, ecology, and microbiology. In microbiome research, compositional data primarily arise from high-throughput sequence-based profiling experiments. These data comprise…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-03-05 Patrick L. Combettes , Christian L. Müller

Compositional data have two unique characteristics compared to typical multivariate data: the observed values are nonnegative and their summand is exactly one. To reflect these characteristics, a specific regularized regression model with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-24 Jong-June Jeon , Yongdai Kim , Sungho Won , Hosik Choi

Compositional data analysis is carried out either by neglecting the compositional constraint and applying standard multivariate data analysis, or by transforming the data using the logs of the ratios of the components. In this work we…

Methodology · Statistics 2011-06-17 Michail T. Tsagris , Simon Preston , Andrew T. A. Wood

Many scientific datasets are compositional in nature. Important biological examples include species abundances in ecology, cell-type compositions derived from single-cell sequencing data, and amplicon abundance data in microbiome research.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Elisabeth Ailer , Christian L. Müller , Niki Kilbertus

Applications such as the analysis of microbiome data have led to renewed interest in statistical methods for compositional data, i.e., multivariate data in the form of probability vectors that contain relative proportions. In particular,…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-09-13 Shiqing Yu , Mathias Drton , Ali Shojaie

High-dimensional compositional data are prevalent in many applications. The simplex constraint poses intrinsic challenges to inferring the conditional dependence relationships among the components forming a composition, as encoded by a…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-03-25 Shucong Zhang , Huiyuan Wang , Wei Lin

In microbiome and genomic studies, the regression of compositional data has been a crucial tool for identifying microbial taxa or genes that are associated with clinical phenotypes. To account for the variation in sequencing depth, the…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-03-11 Pixu Shi , Yuchen Zhou , Anru R. Zhang

Compositional data, representing proportions constrained to the simplex, arise in diverse fields such as geosciences, ecology, genomics, and microbiome research. Existing nonparametric density estimation methods often rely on…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-10-10 Jiajin Xie , Yong Wang , Eduardo García-Portugués

For the Bio+Med-Vis Challenge 2024, we propose a visual analytics system as a redesign for the scatter pie chart visualization of cell type proportions of spatial transcriptomics data. Our design uses three linked views: a view of the…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-09-12 David Hägele , Yuxuan Tang , Daniel Weiskopf

A key challenge in differential abundance analysis of microbial samples is that the counts for each sample are compositional, resulting in biased comparisons of the absolute abundance across study groups. Normalization-based differential…

Genomics · Quantitative Biology 2024-11-26 Dylan Clark-Boucher , Brent A Coull , Harrison T Reeder , Fenglei Wang , Qi Sun , Jacqueline R Starr , Kyu Ha Lee
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