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"This unique book officially defines Microbiome Statistics as a specific new field of statistics, and addresses the statistical analysis of correlation, association, interaction and composition in microbiome research. It also defines microbiome as a hypothesis-driven experimental science, describes two microbiome research themes and six unique characteristics of microbiome data, as well as investigates challenges for statistical analysis of microbiome data using the standard statistical methods. This book is useful for researchers of biostatistics, ecology, and data analysts"--