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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Prev Med. 2022 Jul;63(1 Suppl 1):S37–S46. doi: 10.1016/j.amepre.2022.02.015

Table 2.

Measures of Alpha Diversity by Weight Status With p<0.05 Considered Statistically Significant

Measures Weight status p-value
Non-obese (N=40)
Median (Q1, Q3)		 Obese (N=31)
Median (Q1, Q3)
Observed 275 (259.5, 307.5) 266 (247.5, 290.2) 0.248
Chao1 335 (298.2, 361.4) 315 (280.6, 346.6) 0.143
ACE 327 (311.4, 358.9) 307 (286.0, 343.0) 0.077
Shannon 4 (3.2, 3.8) 4 (3.3, 3.8) 0.471
Simpson 0.916 (0.903, 0.957) 0.944 (0.898, 0.956) 0.553

ACE, Abundance-based Coverage Estimator.