Is data suitable for mixomics?

[adugyasidennis]

Please, does the omics system work with only data that are numerical?

Can a data as below be used

[kimanh.lecao]

hi @adugyasidennis

The short answer is: yes, most methods work mainly with numerical data, however, there is a work around if you have categorical (not ordinal) data, as we describe here:

Categorical data in sPLS

Hi Seung, regarding your question: ’ My metadata is categorical. It can be converted to a numeric type, but it just means a group name and no continuity. I analyzed the data with “Case study with PCA and sPLS on Liver Toxicity data set” and got the following result. The result is almost no difference between the variables. Is this the result because the metadata is categorical? Is there any way to see the influence between variables with categorical metadata?’ [image.png] If you input the …

Ordinal data can still be input to some extend. They will be considered as numerical.

let us know if that answers you question

Kim-Anh