# Kruskal-Wallis test of alpha diversity

**URL:** https://forum.qiime2.org/t/kruskal-wallis-test-of-alpha-diversity/2211
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**Tags:** fdr, pending-development, alpha
**Created:** [December 14, 2017, 3:10am UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/kruskal-wallis-test-of-alpha-diversity/2211 "2017-12-14T03:10:55Z")
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### Author: ![colinbrislawn](https://forum.qiime2.org/user_avatar/forum.qiime2.org/colinbrislawn/32/6221_2.png) [@colinbrislawn](https://forum.qiime2.org/u/colinbrislawn)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2017, 12:12am UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/kruskal-wallis-test-of-alpha-diversity/2211/10 "2017-12-17T00:12:58Z")

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> [@Mehrbod\_Estaki](#):
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> Is this an adjusted P value?

Yep! It's a p-value with a Benjamini & Hochberg correction. See [this paper (PDF link)](http://www.stat.purdue.edu/~doerge/BIOINFORM.D/FALL06/Benjamini%20and%20Y%20FDR.pdf).

> <https://github.com/qiime2/q2-diversity/blob/dev/q2_diversity/_alpha/_visualizer.py#L92-L93>

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