Table 2.

CatchAll statistical analysis of bacterial 16S sequence diversity data.

Sample ID	Orchard	Date of isolation	Tau	Observed Sp	Estimated total Sp	SE	Lower CB	Upper CB	GOF0	GOF5
FWS4	Lindau	21.05.2008	11	1774	18,027	3355	12,672	26,041	0.0014	0.0538
FWS330 (W)	Lindau	11.05.2011	10	2472	25,832	4802	18,161	37,292	0.0007	0.0195
FWS321 (S)	Lindau	11.05.2011	14	2034	17,124	2392	13,119	22,589	0.0067	0.0293
FWS5	Güttingen	21.05.2008	10	2470	32,694	8160	20,453	53,322	0.0019	0.0432
FWS339 (W)	Güttingen	11.05.2011	51	2263	26,338	7310	15,716	45,350	0	0.0064
FWS360 (S)	Güttingen	11.05.2011	12	2942	34,112	4590	26,337	44,480	0.0003	0.0232
FWS1	Wädenswil	21.05.2008	10	2227	28,844	4929	20,802	40,376	0.0003	0.0127
FWS309 (W)	Wädenswil	11.05.2011	11	2762	48,611	15,414	26,918	89,855	0.0043	0.0444
FWS312 (S)	Wädenswil	11.05.2011	9	2682	59,646	32,370	22,926	163,437	0.0003	0.0136

The results described illustrate the variations in observed and estimated “species” within each soil. This provides an analysis of the variations in diversity and estimated diversity.

S, streptomycin treated; W, water treated.

Tau: A tau test is a non-parametric hypothesis test for statistical dependence based on the tau coefficient to measure rank correlation.

Estimated total species: estimated total diversity, which was calculated using the CatchAll model to identify the estimated number of “species” that could be present in the soil sample.

Sp, “species”; SE, standard error; Lower and upper CB, lower and upper 95 confidence bounds, respectively.

GOF0 should be regarded as a diagnostic\ divergence statistic, signaling divergence from the null hypothesis (which states that the model is correct), while GOF5 represents the p-value from a legitimate statistical hypothesis test of model.

The model used was the Two Mixed Experiment model for all except sample FWS339, where the Three Mixed Experiment model was used. The Two Mixed Model and Three Mixed Models are statistical sampling models used to analyze the data.