Hey,
How do I interpret beta diversity between individual samples? (all tutorials are between group of samples)
I've used three metrics correlation, jaccard, braycurtis
ie:
what is the meaning of those numbers? Why Correlation is 0 in the same samples?
For example s10SWB, s10SW, s11SW cluster together in PCoA, as indeed those are the samples from the same guy. In Jaccard they have values ranging from 0.67 to 0.76 - so should I interpret it that "similar numbers" have similar diversity? Similar low? Similar high?
Maybe there is some webpage saying Jaccard:
0.0 - 0.2 - not similar diversity
0.2 - 0.4 - a bit similar diversity
0.4 - 0.6 - a bit more similar diversity
etc...
small distance == close == similar
larger distance == far away == different
This is why samples have 0 distance from themselves; they are identical == zero distance from themselves
Colin
P.S. Technically bray-curtis is a dissimilarity.
P.P.S. “all tutorials are between group of samples” You have got to have reps for stat tests!
Normally correlation means: 0 - no relationship, 1 - full relationship (regards Pearson/Spearman). So at least the “correlation” beta metrics is not clear to me.
Anyway, if 0 is “no distance” than it’s strange for me that repetitions from the same patient are such distant (but in PCoA they are close)