Table 1.

P values from TOST and RTOST analyses of the solid, liquid, and combined OTU tables. A random day was taken from the OTU table for each period of lactation for each cow and compared against the mean and the median of the OTU count for that period of the same cow

Sample type	Random vs Mean	Random vs Median
TOST P values
Solids	<  0.0001	<  0.0001
Liquids	<  0.0001	<  0.0001
Combined	<  0.0001	<  0.0001
RTOST P values
Solids	<  0.0001	<  0.0001
Liquids	<  0.0001	<  0.0001
Combined	<  0.0001	<  0.0001