I have a binary species matrix and want to identify species that are associated with a group that has three levels. I conducted the analysis using both the multipatt and signassoc functions in indicspeciesv1.7.6 in R. signassoc explicitly states it can take binary species matrices, while multipatt does not. I ran the multipatt function and got similar results to signassoc. However, the multipatt results give values for exclusivity (indVal$A) and faithfulness (indVal$B). Are these values interpretable in the same way as if the input matrix included abundances? Or should I stick with the signassoc results.

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