Table 7. For each taxon in the leftmost column, this table shows the five most useful organisms for prediction of ADD, as determined by three different ranking methods: F-value, a decision tree based approach, and mutual information.

Unless otherwise indicated, terms refer to microbes located in the ear.

Feature Ranking
	F-value*	Tree	Mutual Information
Phylum	armatimonadetes	verrucomicrobia	actinobacteria
	planctomycetes	armatimonadetes	spirochaetes
	verrucomicrobia	actinobacteria	armatimonadetes
	actinobacteria	planctomycetes	firmicutes†
	cyanobacteria	thermodesulfobacteria†	cyanobacteria†
Class	thermoleophilia	erysipelotrichi	actinobacteria
	erysipelotrichi	clostridia	verrucomicrobiae
	fimbriimonadetes	acidimicrobiia	leptospirae
	planctomycetia	alphaproteobacteria	bacilli
	spartobacteria	solibactereres	thermoleophilia
Order	solirubrobacterales	clostridiales	lactobacillales†
	rhodospirillales	erysipelotrichales	lactobacillales
	caulobacterales	myxococcales	thiotrichales
	myxococcales	xanthomonadales	bacillales
	erysipelotrichales	chthoniobacterales	leptospirales
Family	nocardioidaceae	staphylococcaceae	enterococcaceae
	bradyrhizobiaceae	planococcaceae	staphylococcaceae
	solirubrobacteraceae	enterococcaceae	streptosporangiaceae†
	caulobacteraceae	pseudomonadaceae	planococcaceae
	acetobacteraceae	veillonellaceae	prevotellaceae
Genus	caulobacter	staphylococcus	macrococcus
	acidisphaera	peptoniphilus	vagococcus
	phenylobacterium	vagococcus	symploca†
	dactylosporangium	pseudonocardia	staphylococcus
	nocardioides	oenococcus	pelomonas
Species	virgibacillus salexigens	staph. caprae	actin. rutila
	staph. fleurettii	sporosarcina pasteurii	staph. intermedius
	dactylosporangium maewongense	strep. tigurinus	marinomonas basaltis
	roseomonas terpenica	enterococcus rottae	staph. devriesei
	nocardioides islandensis	staph. epidermidis	propion. granulosum

^† located in the nose

* ranked by p-value