Table 4.

Reliability for more bacterial taxa in the three-modality latent variable SEM measurement model (Sanger, 454_V1V3 and 454_V3V5), and its correlation to the latent variable

	Three-measurement modality model
	Sanger	454_V1V3	454_V3V5
(A) Proteobacteria
Reliability	0.657	0.641	0.974
(95% CI)	(0.524, 0.793)	(0.529, 0.724)	(0.878, 1.000)
Correlation to the latent variable	0.811	0.801	0.987
(95% CI)	(0.724, 0.891)	(0.727, 0.851)	(0.937, 1.000)
(B) Firmicutes/Clostridia/Clostridiales/LachnoIV
Reliability	0.685	0.923	0.793
(95% CI)	(0.582, 0.804)	(0.837, 1.000)	(0.688, 0.903)
Correlation to the latent variable	0.827	0.961	0.890
(95% CI)	(0.763, 0.897)	(0.915, 1.000)	(0.829, 0.950)
(C) Actinobacteria
Reliability	0.582	0.854	0.882
(95% CI)	(0.424, 0.700)	(0.743, 0.942)	(0.765, 0.976)
Correlation to the latent variable	0.763	0.924	0.939
(95% CI)	(0.652, 0.837)	(0.862, 0.970)	(0.875, 0.988)
(D) Bacteroidetes
Reliability	0.684	0.828	0.980
(95% CI)	(0.323, 0.922)	(0.652, 1.000)	(0.941, 1.000)
Correlation to the latent variable	0.827	0.910	0.990
(95% CI)	(0.569, 0.960)	(0.808, 1.000)	(0.970, 1.000)
(E) Firmicutes/Bacilli
Reliability	0.698	0.953	0.959
(95% CI)	(0.553, 0.797)	(0.888, 1.000)	(0.913, 0.995)
Correlation to the latent variable	0.835	0.976	0.979
(95% CI)	(0.744, 0.893)	(0.942, 1.000)	(0.956, 0.998)

The 95% confidence intervals are obtained using bootstrap resampling with 100 replications.