# Core-metrics-results

**URL:** https://forum.qiime2.org/t/core-metrics-results/2959
**Category:** User Support
**Tags:** group-significance, beta
**Created:** [February 9, 2018, 2:32pm UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/core-metrics-results/2959 "2018-02-09T14:32:59Z")
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### Author: ![thermokarst](https://forum.qiime2.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/8e7dd6/32.png) [@thermokarst](https://forum.qiime2.org/u/thermokarst)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2018, 1:06pm UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/core-metrics-results/2959/3 "2018-02-12T13:06:22Z")

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Hi @WAS! I am assuming you are talking about the output visualization from the [`diversity beta-group-significance`](https://docs.qiime2.org/2017.12/plugins/available/diversity/beta-group-significance/) visualizer --- check out this great thread for a bit more discussion:

> [@How to interpret beta-group-significance results (boxplots)](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/how-to-interpret-beta-group-significance-results-boxplots/2091):
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> Hi there, I was wondering if someone would be happy to explain how to interpret the output of beta-group-significance, particularly the pairwise boxplots. One thing that's really confusing me is the 'n' numbers under the boxplots (see below for example). Initially I assumed that it referred to the number of samples in that category, but that can't be possible as n=216 for 'supra' when I know there are only 24 'supra' samples and only 35 samples total in my dataset. Is 'n' the number of 'distan…

If you are asking about a different visualization, can you please post the following:

- the version of QIIME 2 you are running
- the exact command you are running (copy and paste)
- the metadata you are using (upload or copy and paste)
- the resulting visualization in question (upload or attach a screenshot)

Thanks! 🦖

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