# Faith\_pd visualization in Alpha diversity

**URL:** https://forum.qiime2.org/t/faith-pd-visualization-in-alpha-diversity/8033
**Category:** User Support
**Tags:** metadata, alpha
**Created:** [January 28, 2019, 8:59am UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/faith-pd-visualization-in-alpha-diversity/8033 "2019-01-28T08:59:56Z")
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### Author: ![jwdebelius](https://forum.qiime2.org/user_avatar/forum.qiime2.org/jwdebelius/32/9655_2.png) [@jwdebelius](https://forum.qiime2.org/u/jwdebelius)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2019, 9:04am UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/faith-pd-visualization-in-alpha-diversity/8033/2 "2019-01-28T09:04:35Z")

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Hi @kyeong_yun ,

It sounds like you don't have enough data for a comparison. Your columns are either all unique values (`#SampleID`, `Description`, and `Type`) or only consist of one value (`BodySite`).

You're going to have a really hard time doing any statistics with just two samples. (We had a big discussion about some of that [here](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/comparing-beta-diversity-between-samples-not-groups/7981), recently.) However, the long and short of it is that you can't do statitics with just two samples, and that there are no comparisons to be made.

Best,  
Justine

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