Interpretation/Correlation to input data

[kunstner]

Hi,

first of all, thanks you for developing this method. It seems quite useful so far. However, I'm having some troubles interpreting the results.

I went through your toy example with 10 features (e.g. OTUs) observed in 15 samples. In the example you decided to cut the data into three bins to get three amalgams. This is nicely illustrated in the paper as well.

Is there a way to estimate the contribution of each OTU on the amalgams? Is this stored in out$amalgams (when following your code)? And is it possible to translate this matrix directly into the contribution of each OTU to the amalgams?
Sorry for my questions but I would like to use the method on some real data and would like to interpret the results in a biological context.

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Many thanks!

Best,
Axel