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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Psychosom Med. 2018 Sep;80(7):640–648. doi: 10.1097/PSY.0000000000000614

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Schematic of a Non-metric multidimensional scaling (NMDS) plot. NMDS is an indirect gradient analysis approach which produces an ordination based on a distance and attempts to represent, as closely as possible, the pairwise dissimilarity between objects in a low-dimensional space. Points represent individual participants’ gut microbiota. Participants with gut microbiota that are more similar to one another are ordinated closer together. Circles are confidence ellipses.