Table 3.
Reliability of each measurement platform in the three-modality latent variable SEM measurement model, and its correlation to the latent variable (true relative frequency of Faecalibacterium)
|
Three- modality measurement model |
|||
|---|---|---|---|
| Sanger | 454_V3V5 | qPCR | |
| Reliability |
0.911 |
0.822 |
0.452 |
| (95% CI) |
(0.775, 1.000) |
(0.720, 0.912) |
(0.323, 0.610) |
| Correlation to the latent variable |
0.955 |
0.907 |
0.672 |
| (95% CI) |
(0.880, 1.000) |
(0.849, 0.955) |
(0.568, 0.781) |
| |
Sanger |
454_V1V3 |
qPCR |
| Reliability |
0.851 |
0.806 |
0.483 |
| (95% CI) |
(0.671, 1.000) |
(0.645, 0.905) |
(0.350, 0.648) |
| Correlation to the latent variable |
0.922 |
0.898 |
0.696 |
| (95% CI) | (0.819, 1.000) | (0.803, 0.951) | (0.592, 0.805) |
The 95% confidence intervals are obtained using bootstrap resampling with 100 replications. Two 3-modality models are shown with Sanger, qPCR, and 454_V3V5 in the first model, and 454_V1V3 in the second model.