I have shotgun sequencing data of oral microbiome samples from two groups and I want to measure the alpha (Shannon Index) and beta (Bray-Curtis Dissimilarity) diversities.
I have already made this with raw and square-root transformed data, but I only observe differences between groups with square-root transformed data
For what I understand most of the people calculate these diversities with raw (or rarefied) data, thus, I would be grateful if anyone could elucidate-me if it is ok or not, in this case, to use square-root transformed data.
Thanks in advance
Tribals as part of the fringe community are making and will continue to make efforts to be a part of the urban industrial system and what we have to do is to locate the process of resistance to this on the part the "core" with a view to minimising the resistance. Anthropologists and policy-makers have to realise their subjective bias as members or aspirant members of the "core" when they are studying the tribals or actually taking decisions about the tribals.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/40738246?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents