Skip to main content

Table 2 Reliability of each measurement platform in the four-modality latent variable SEM measurement model, and its correlation to the latent variable (true relative frequency of Faecalibacterium )

From: Comparative analysis of microbiome measurement platforms using latent variable structural equation modeling

 

Four- modality measurement model

Sanger

454_V1V3

454_V3V5

qPCR

Reliability

0.819

0.857

0.912

0.441

(95% CI)

(0.689, 0.907)

(0.774, 0.917)

(0.865, 0.963)

(0.303, 0.553)

Correlation to the latent variable

0.905

0.926

0.955

0.664

(95% CI)

(0.830, 0.952)

(0.880, 0.958)

(0.930, 0.981)

(0.550, 0.744)

  1. The 95 % confidence intervals are obtained using bootstrap resampling with 100 replications [24].